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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

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We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

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Calmness is always godlike.

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

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Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

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Frankness invites frankness.

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Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

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'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

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Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

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There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

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It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

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Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

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Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would trulier express our central and wide-related nature, instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent our eyes. Already that day exists for us, shines in on us at unawares, but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature. The idiot, the Indian, the child, and unschooled farmer's boy, stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

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That which builds is better than that which is built.

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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

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