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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

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Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

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That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

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The finest wits have their sediment.

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Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

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

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A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

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It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

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Blame is safer than praise

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We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

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All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.

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Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

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We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

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Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

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