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It is a luxury to be understood.

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The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

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The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

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The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

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Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

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The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

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I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

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Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.

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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

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Life is a search after power.

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In good writing, words become one with things.

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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

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A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

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Adult males are what their moms designed them.

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The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.

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