"Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her."
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"'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives."
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"And not to serve for a table-talk."
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"Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope."
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"Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other."
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"I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own."
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"Necessity is a violent school-mistress."
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"Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself."
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"Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others."
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"We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude."
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"But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil and listen to him, not continually bawl words into his ears as if pouring water into a funnel. Good teaching will come from a mind well made rather than well filled."
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"I do not understand; I pause; I examine."
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"Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves."
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"In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us."
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"We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none."
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"The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself."
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"We are all of us richer than we think we are."
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"Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise."
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"Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue."
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"Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?"
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