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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

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Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

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Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

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It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

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The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

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The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

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Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

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In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

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Do the thing and you will have the power.

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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

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