"One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record."
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"Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind."
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"None can teach admirably if not loving his task."
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"An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best."
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"Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants."
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"The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose names thereafter became illustrious. The thumbed volumes, now so precious to thousands, were compiled from personal experiences and owe their interest to touches of inspiration of which the writer was less author than amanuensis, himself the voiced word of life for all times."
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"Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life."
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"Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves."
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"Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!"
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"A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life."
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"Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history"
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"One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm."
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"Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially."
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"Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion."
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"Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor."
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"The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines."
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"A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden."
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"One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries."
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"Opposition strengthens the manly will."
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"Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical"
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