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"I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged."
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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
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"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
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"Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found."
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"Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter."
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"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."
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"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."
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"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts."
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"By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime."
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"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
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"The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."
Past
"He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all."
Society
"Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream! I turn from you, and listen to the wind."
Art
"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."
Animals
"In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea."
Fear
"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
Soul
"The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution; but by the pleasurable activity of mind excited by the attractions of the journey itself."
Growth
"The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all."
Government
"Prose: words in their best order, poetry: the best words in the best order."
Desire
"A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory."
Trust
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