"Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower."
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"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation."
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"The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim."
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"Common sense is the genius of humanity."
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"They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!"
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"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest."
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"To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him."
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"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."
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"Every second is of infinite value."
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"I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine."
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"One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going."
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"Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents."
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"Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced."
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"It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated."
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"What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves."
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"Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate."
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"If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
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"A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next."
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"Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?"
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"The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy."
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