Don't waste life in doubts and fears spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hours duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We go to Europe to be Americanized.
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Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances, the senses are despotic
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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college for boys, not for men and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tart, cathartic virtue.
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