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• Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
• Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not…
• Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
• Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
• No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by…
• Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
• Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
• The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants,…
• The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
• God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual…
• God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
• Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what…

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