Quote#Nature
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process…
Quote byDaniel Webster · 1782–1852
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825), p. 71.
English (original)
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.
— Daniel Webster
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