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• A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.

  Rajneesh

  Fire, Dunces, Used

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• Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Best Of Me, Remarkable

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.44

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• I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Writing, Men, Names

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• I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Jesus, People, World

  Quoted in Lita Grey Chaplin, My Life with Chaplin: An Intimate Memoir (1966)

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• The secret known to two is no longer a secret.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Two, Secret, Secrecy

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• It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have.

  Ole Hallesby

  Children, Father, Desire

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Giving, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.252

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• HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Two, Voice

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2419, Delphi Classics

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• PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Views, Editors, Feet

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.180, University of Georgia Press

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• recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Recalls

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.177, 谷月社

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• The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.

  Mark Twain

  Two, Unknown Person, Planets

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4064, Delphi Classics

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• Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religion, World, Honest

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.300

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• It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.

  Dave Barry

  Taken, Brain, Groups

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• The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Good Art, Delightful

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.217, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There is no known device for artistic contraception.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Artistic, Devices, Contraception

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• Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.

  Ovid

  Adversity, Valor, Hector

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• God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Teeth, Bells

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• Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.

  Dalai Lama

  Nature, Responsibility, Animal

  The Dalai Lama (2009). “Worlds in Harmony”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Skins, Firsts, Achieve

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• I?m much bigger in Britain than I am there. I'm well-known, but my name's That Guy in America. . . . People shout: "Hey ? I know you! You're That Guy.".

  Billy Connolly

  Names, America, People

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• For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.

  William Cowper

  Loss, Light, Well Known

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.379

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• They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.

  William Cowper

  Judging, Birth, Poetic

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.113

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• Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Fool, Sincere

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Cobham' (1734) l. 174

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• We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known.

  Thomas Paine

  Bible, Ignorance, People

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.364

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• Here is an Unity Quote that we have all known since school: United we stand; divided we fall.

  Aesop

  Fall, School, Unity

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