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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

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The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

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The education of the will is the object of our existence.

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My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

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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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The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

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Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

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If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.

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Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.

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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

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A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced.

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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

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The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.

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Genius is power, talent is applicability.

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It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

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