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The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

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The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.

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Our moods do not believe in each other.

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When it's dark enough men see stars.

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Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

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A great man is always willing to be little.

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To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.

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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

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Blessed are those who have no talent!

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Books are for nothing but to inspire

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It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.

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The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

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Imitation cannot go above its model.

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A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

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There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.

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What we call results are beginnings.

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The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.

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