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

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Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.

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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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Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

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

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Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

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The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

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Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

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We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

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All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

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The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

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If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

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If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

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The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

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