“Never lose, then, that attitude of mind. Hold fast in silence to all that is your own, for you will need it in the fight; but never, never desire to get knowledge or power for any other purpose than to give it on the altar, for thus alone can it be saved to you.”

—  William Quan Judge

Vol. I, Letter 1
Letters That Have Helped Me (1891)

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