An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
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Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours march do dinnerand then to thinking.
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He is a man of capacity who possesses considerable intellectual riches while he is a man of genius who finds out a vein of new ore. Originality is the seeing nature differently from others, and yet as it is in itself. It is not singularity or affectation, but the discovery of new and valuable truth. All the world do not see the whole meaning of any object they have been looking at. Habit blinds them to some things shortsightedness to others. Every mind is not a gauge and measure of truth. Nature has her surface and her dark recesses. She is deep, obscure, and infinite. It is only minds on whom she makes her fullest impressions that can penetrate her shrine or unveil her Holy of Holies. It is only those whom she has filled with her spirit that have the boldness or the power to reveal her mysteries to others.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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