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" The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. "

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" When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us. "

" Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. "

" I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as far as lies in my power, the quantity of their knowledge and goodness and happiness. "

" There is a class of persons whose souls are essentially non-conductors to the electricity of sentiment, and whose minds seem to be filled with their own train of thinking, convictions, and purposes to the exclusion of everything else. "

" As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. "

" There are so many ways in which the heart of man conceals itself from man! "

" My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered into the active concerns of the world and not have been connected with it merely as a writer of books. "

" If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such. "

" There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape. "

" In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on. "

" England has been called, with great felicity of conception, 'the land of liberty and good sense.' We have preserved many of the advantages of a free people, which the nations of the Continent have long since lost. "

" If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. "

" Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. "

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" Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief. "

" What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name. "

" Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse. "

" He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. "

" God himself has no right to be a tyrant. "

" Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. "

" To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine road to independence. "

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" What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us? "

" Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness. "

" The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society sufficiently shows that man is, of all other beings, the most formidable enemy to man. "

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" Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it. "