“ Truth is powerful, and, if not instantly, at least by slow degrees, may make good her possession. Gleams of good sense may penetrate through the thickest clouds of error … and, as the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking; open to him new mines of science and new incentives to virtue; and perhaps, by a blended and compound effect, produce in him an improvement which was out of the limits of his lessons, and raise him to heights the preceptor never knew. ”
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“ Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. ”
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“ A virtuous man will teach himself to recollect the principle of universal benevolence as often as pious men repeat their prayers. ”
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“ There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. ”
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“ There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. ”
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“ There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. ”
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“ Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. ”
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“ There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. ”
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“ Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. ”
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“ The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy. ”
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“ The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. ”
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“ He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. ”
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“ The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy. ”
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“ What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name. ”
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“ The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. ”
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“ The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy. ”
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“ There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. ”
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“ Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. ”
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“ The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy. ”
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