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Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

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Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

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A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

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When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

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No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.

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Morality is the object of government.

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All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

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He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

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We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

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All vigor is contagious.

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Meek young men grow up in libraries.

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The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.

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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

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An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.

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The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

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Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

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We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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