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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong . . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled.

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Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

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The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

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Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.

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Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

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Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.

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Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

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Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

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Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

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The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

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Great men exist that there might be greater men.

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There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

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The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

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A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

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