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• And upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go a-angling.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 21...
• Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplatio
  Title and profit I resign; The post of honour shall be mine....
• Ignorance is the opiate of the poor, a cordial, administered by the gracious hand of providence.
• Kirk: "My god, what has happened here?" Chang: "You dare to feign ignorance?
  Kirk: "What happened?" Chang: "With a direct torpedo hit, you crippled our entire gravitational field!...
• Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reaso
  of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property....
• To nourish oneself on ancient virtue induces perseverance.
  Danger. In the end, good fortune comes. If by chance you are in the service of a king, Seek not works....
• Virtue is its own reward. [and] Ignorance of good and evil is the most upsetting fact of human life.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero "De Finibus" (106-43 BCE)...
• That raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak!
  ) Bodes me no good. -- John Gay (1688-1732) -- Fables, Part i, The Farmer's Wife and the Rave...
• Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom. For herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself
  he has no desire for that of which he feels no want. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.)...