To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Visit her, gentle Sleep with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth, May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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The light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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