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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Grief
Wisdom
Knowledge
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.
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Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
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Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
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A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
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