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Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

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Education should be as broad as man.

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Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number; But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. "Pass in, pass in," the angels say

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The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

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I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

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A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

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The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

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Every wall is a door.

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Insist upon yourself. Be original.

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First be a good animal.

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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

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It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

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It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

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History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

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