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- All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
- The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose…
- Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
- Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
- Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
- Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
- Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
- A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
- Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and…
- Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all…
- Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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