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The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

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Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received.

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Science finds it methods.

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The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

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The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

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The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

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All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

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We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

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Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

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There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.

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Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never sought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance suppose The selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

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It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.

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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

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

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

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The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

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