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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

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I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

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Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

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Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful

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We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

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Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

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A friend is the hope of the heart.

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Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

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The key to every man is his thought.

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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

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All great men come out of the middle classes.

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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

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