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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes...
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Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred...
Quote #20032
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Quote #29027
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief,...
Quote #18587
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but...
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One must also accept that one has ‘uncreative’ moments. The more honestly one can...
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Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to...
Quote #26156
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.