If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.
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Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. - Essays.
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