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- The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens…
- 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…
- The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
- Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader…
- I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
- Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother…
- Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
- Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
- The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science…
- The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
- 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…
- The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone…
- The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is…
- Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
- The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens…
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