"Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself."
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"Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures."
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"Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity."
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"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
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"The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it."
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"The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place."
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"The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends."
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"We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him."
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"Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody."
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"For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever."
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"I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life."
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"That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest."
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"People seldom hit what they do not aim at."
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"A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are."
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"Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man."
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"The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves."
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"Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?"
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"Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man."
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"There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends."
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"Who is old enough to have learned from experience?"
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