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“Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty in which they involve you, and by the cold reception which your pretended discoveries shall meet with, when communicated. Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”
― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“There is a certain bleakness in finding hope where one expected certainty.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

“I bid your voice be dumb until the day you find a word worth speaking.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore