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Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

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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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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

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The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

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For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.

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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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Whatever limits us we call fate.

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There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

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Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

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The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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The only prudence in life is concentration.

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The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.

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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

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Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

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We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

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