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“Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.”

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Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

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Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

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What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

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Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

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How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

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God has commanded Time to console the unhappy

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We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an…

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God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any easier on account of this, indeed it may be harder, even more urgent, but now you are centered, focused, clear. So this is where I am supposed to be. I always thought I was supposed to…

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