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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

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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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As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final and say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell. The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealists on the power of Thought and Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture.

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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

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The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

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The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

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That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

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Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

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You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught.

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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

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A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

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What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

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A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

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Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

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Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.

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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

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