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The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

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The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

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The world exists for the education of each man.

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No society can ever be so large as one man.

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Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

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Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

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The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

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The lover of letters loves power too.

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We are wiser than we know.

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The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

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All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

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The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

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Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

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A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

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Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.

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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

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So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

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Each mind has its own method.

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