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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

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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.

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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.

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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

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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.

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

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The home is the chief school of human virtues.

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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 7th, 1780

Died: October 2nd, 1842

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