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I would ask them to consider how great are the
powers of the mind of man and how astonishing its
capacity for carrying its desires into execution: for
has not man succeeded in crossing the high seas, in
learning the number and the courses of the stars,
and almost measuring the universe itself, all of them
accomplishments of less importance than oratory, but
of far greater difficulty? And then let them reflect
on the greatness of' their aims and on the fact that
no labour should be too huge for those that are
beckoned by the hope of such reward.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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