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Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

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Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

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

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

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In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

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For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

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Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

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Popularity is for dolls.

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I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

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No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

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The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

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A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

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Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

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A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

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The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

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