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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous...
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his...
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualifications which he does not...
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser...
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for...
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon...
The supreme end of education is expert discernment of all things- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine...
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour...
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when...
Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great...
All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular...
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another,...
If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please...