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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

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Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

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The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.

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We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

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Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.

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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.

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Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea is yea, their nay, nay. They are newly discovered but not new.

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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

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We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.

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The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

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The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

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They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

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Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.

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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

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The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

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As soon as there is life there is danger.

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Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

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If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

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