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Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

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I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

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It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.

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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.

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A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs.

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Postpone not your life.

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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

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Give all to love; Obey thy heart.

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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

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To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

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We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

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Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

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