Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
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A soldier is a man whose business it is to kill those who never offended him, and who are the innocent martyrs of other men's iniquities. Whatever may become of the abstract question of the justifiableness of war, it seems impossible that the soldier should not be a depraved and unnatural thing.
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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
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The most desirable mode of education. . . . is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.
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