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“Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3e53d255fcf71910fc8b660838f7dfd5111c3f198f7cce1ae785649688bd22ee
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvellous when it comes to our knowledge for the first…”
Pliny the Elder
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Be not ignorant of anything in a great matter or a small.”
Unattributed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“"High characters," cries one, and he would see Things that ne'er were, nor are, nor e'er will be.”
Sir John Suckling
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“And no man knows distinctly anything, And no man ever will.”
Diogenes Laertius
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.”
Plutarch
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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