The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
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The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
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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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To think is to act.
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