Better to Aspire
Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.
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Context: The Sphere points out a creature confined to a single Point, who believes he is the whole universe.
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Source: Part II, Section 20: How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision