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“Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Thoughts. Chap. ii. 10.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 39a4a4ebc34605dc07dff4b54ca0e607ad163b93b9255de6f60719059aeb6d96
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Sir Thomas Browne
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.”
James Beattie
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything and everything is nought.”
Horace Smith
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that 's never read,-- To himself he lives, and…”
Thomas Dekker
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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