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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

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The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

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The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.

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Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.

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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

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Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

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Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

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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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Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.

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You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade.

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Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

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There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

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The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

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