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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

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One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

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When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

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Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

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Friendship buys friendship.

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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

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The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.

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The religions we call false were once true.

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The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.

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Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

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Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

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The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

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For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

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Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

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There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

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