"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."
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"The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb."
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"Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen."
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"Do what you fear and your fear will die."
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"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows."
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"Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason."
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"The greatest gift is a portion of thyself."
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"Shallow men believe in luck."
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"When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature."
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"A fly is as untamable as a hyena."
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"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
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"The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires."
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"Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely."
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"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
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"Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly."
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"Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults."
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"The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education."
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"Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great."
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"We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action."
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"When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive."
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