"Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth."
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"The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion."
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"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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"You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness."
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"The world exists for the education of each man."
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"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door."
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"Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour."
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"The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade."
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"The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals."
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"There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears."
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"There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle."
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"Fame is proof that the people are gullible."
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"And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship."
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"Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know"
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"Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee."
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"When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart."
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"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."
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"Society is a hospital of incurables."
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"Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well."
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"Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time."
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