LIMITATION

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1. We know in part, and we prophesy in part.—Bible, I Corinthians 13:9
   

2. Whoso belongs only to his own age, and reverences only its gilt Popinjays or soot-smeared Mumbo-jumbos, must needs die with it.—CARLYLE, On Boswell
   

3. Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame.—G. K. CHESTERTON, Orthodoxy
   

4. No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.—JOHN MORLEY, Robespierre
   

5. The most perfect types of manhood are always in revolt against the limitations of man's nature, his position on the face of the earth, and his ignorance. Towards the end of remedying these defects in man's structure and powers, good men have always struggled, and always shall struggle, to cleanse the blurred compass of man's intellect that it may make manifest all the degrees of knowledge in the universe.—LIAM O'FLAHERTY, Two Years