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Fyodor Dostoevsky·1880

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and as it were to guide us.

Isaac Newton·1700

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Plato·375 BC

Last of all he will be able to see the sun, not turning aside to the illusory reflections of it in the water, but gazing directly at it in its own proper place and contemplating it as it is.