What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

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We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

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It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

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Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

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