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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

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Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

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People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

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The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind; and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.

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I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

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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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Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

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Travel is a fools paradise.

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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

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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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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

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Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

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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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Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

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My life is not an apology, but a life.

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We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

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