"Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great."
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"The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind."
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"Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both."
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"There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow."
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"How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes."
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"A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great."
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"When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead."
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"The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly."
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"The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State."
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"Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being."
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"He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter."
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"The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild."
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"A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet."
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"Who loses a day loses life."
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"To Be is to live with God."
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"The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind."
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"I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret. By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing he may be hindered from his end and kept out of his own. Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."
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"he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions."
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"Or whipping its rough surface for a trout."
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"There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain."
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