"Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing."
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"[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family."
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"If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential."
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"Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens."
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"Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action."
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"It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united."
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"Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science."
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"There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential."
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"Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential."
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"All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge."
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"There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there."
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"The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing power of this machine, not genetically grounded Darwinian entities created specifically by natural selection for their current function."
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"I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity."
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"Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it."
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"The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential."
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"Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre."
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"Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches."
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"There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere."
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"For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it."
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"Lies are essential to humanity."
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