"Even the facts of science may dust the……" — Henry David Thoreau
"Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven."
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Henry David Thoreau
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