- Heirs
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
- Biography
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- Nov 07, 2020
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is governed by opinion.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great hope of society is in individual character.
- Error
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- Nov 07, 2020
Error is discipline through which we advance.
- Higher
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
- Individuality
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
- Debarred
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020