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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.
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