"The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world."
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"A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good."
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"The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching."
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"A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood."
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"Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides."
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"Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading."
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"The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism."
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"Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name."
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"Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire."
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"What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?"
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"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change."
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"Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all to inform and educate all. Sallies forth from our cramped firesides into other homes, other hearts, are wonderfully wholesome and enlarging. Travel opens prospects on all sides, widens our horizon, liberates the mind from geographical and conventional limitations, from local prejudices and national, showing the globe in its differing climates, zones, and latitudes of intelligence."
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"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."
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"Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements."
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"There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer."
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"Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined."
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