"Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman."
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"Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only."
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"Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?"
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"A work of real merit finds favor at last."
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"Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds."
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"One's outlook is a part of his virtue."
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"Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness."
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"In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly."
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"Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought."
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
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"Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll."
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"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."
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"Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor."
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"Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken."
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"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."
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"Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force."
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"Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all."
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"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."
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"If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible."
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"Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him."
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