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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
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You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
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I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
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In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.