Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you pleaseyou can never have both.
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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
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God enters a private door into every individual.
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
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