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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

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General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

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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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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

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Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

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Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.

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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

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There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

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In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.

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Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is to bepainted, a lock to be repaired. I want wood, or oil, or meal, or salt; the house smokes, or I have a headache; then the tax; and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains; and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,--these eat up the hours.

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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

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Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea is yea, their nay, nay. They are newly discovered but not new.

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Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

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An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.

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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

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