Let us have 'sweet girl graduates' by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom and the 'golden hair' will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.
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This seems to be one of the many cases in which the admitted accuracy of mathematical processes is allowed to throw a wholly inadmissible appearance of authority over the results obtained by them. Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.Thomas Henry Huxley
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
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What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place.
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I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.
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A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.
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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight in cleverness.
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