"If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires."

Boileau, Nicholas on ancestry
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"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."

Ball, Ivern on knowledge
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"Knowledge and human power are synonymous."

Bacon, Francis on knowledge
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"Knowledge is power."

Bacon, Francis on knowledge
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"Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it."

Back, Sudie on knowledge
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"Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another."

Addison, Joseph on knowledge
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"How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."

Abbott, John on knowledge
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"What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others."

Confucius on example
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"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."

Confucius on diligence
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"Do well and you will have no need for ancestors."

Voltaire on ancestry
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"Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son."

Proverb, Russian on ancestry
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"Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants."

Proverb, Danish on ancestry   

"From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor."

Proverb on ancestry
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"Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?"

Hitopadesa on ancestry
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"He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment."

Lao-Tzu on knowledge
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