To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

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Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.

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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

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