"I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less."
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"Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!"
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"Wonder is the basis of worship."
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"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."
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"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die."
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"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being."
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"To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface."
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"The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past."
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"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."
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"The whole past is the procession of the present."
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"Rest is for the dead."
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"Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back."
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"'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all."
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"Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded."
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"Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid."
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"Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world."
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"The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit."
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"History is a great dust heap."
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"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work."
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"Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed."
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