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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

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The soul circumscribes all things.

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I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

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Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

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The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.

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A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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Thought makes everything fit for use.

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People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

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History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

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I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

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But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

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As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

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Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

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