"I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books."
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"Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are."
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"The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments."
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"We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise."
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"The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point."
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"A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works."
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"Let us be poised, wise and our own today."
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"If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more."
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"The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon."
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"Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?"
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"The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood."
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"Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?"
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"Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today."
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"Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so."
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"When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother."
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"That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose."
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"Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation."
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"The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made."
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"Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes."
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"Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men. That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in its eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us."
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