"Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round."
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"The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength."
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"Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul."
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"Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity."
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"In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort."
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"Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf."
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"Look out! Behind you!"
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"But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes."
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"He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry."
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"[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom."
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"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]"
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"Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve."
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"Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind."
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"We are all wise for other people, none for himself."
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"If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it."
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"A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own."
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"Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid."
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"Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn."
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"But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age."
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"We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns."
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