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

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" The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness. "

" It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law and to allow the criminal all the benefit, if benefit to him shall result, of any evasion or escape that the law shall afford him. "

" We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity. "

" He that loves reading has everything within his reach. "

" The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character. "

" The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. "

" 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. "

" It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man. "

" The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel. "

" We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty. "

" Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. "

" Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe. "

" Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the materials of thinking, but in his sports, he actually thinks: he whets his faculties, and he opens his eyes. "

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

" What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to. "

" The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. "

" Perhaps the majority of human beings never think of standing by themselves, and choosing their own employments, till the sentence has been regularly promulgated to them, 'It is time for you to take care of yourself.' "

" The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited. "

" 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. "

" Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing and thinking and feeling alone? "

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

" What is high birth to him to whom high birth has never been the theme of his contemplation? What is a throne to him who has never dreamed of a throne? "

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

" Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. "

" Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He is ever on his guard lest his plain speaking should be willfully perverted, or should assume a meaning he never thought of, through the animosity or prejudice of the individual that hears him. "

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" Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. "

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