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Knowledge alone is the being of Nature, Giving a soul to her manifold features, Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness, The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.
Knowledge alone is the being of Nature, Giving a soul to her manifold features, Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness, The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.
Approximate author period: c. 1851 AD · industrial
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- Bayard Taylor
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- Approximate author period: c. 1851 AD · industrial
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 423 · quotation 10 · Bayard Taylor · Kilimandjaro. St. 2.
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