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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.

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

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Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

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Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

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The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

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A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

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

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Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

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One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

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Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

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The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

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Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

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Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

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Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

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I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

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