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Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

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For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

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It is defeat which educates us.

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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

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A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

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Every burned book enlightens the world.

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

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The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

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In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

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A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

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Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

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Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea is yea, their nay, nay. They are newly discovered but not new.

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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

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