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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."
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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."
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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
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"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."
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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
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"An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric."
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"Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another."
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"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."
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"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."
Genius

"By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man."
Education

"The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one."
Family

"You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water."
Love

"Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be."
Happiness

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."
Philosophy

"Love is not in our choice but in our fate."
Love

"Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where."
Death

"Repentance is but want of power to sin."
Power
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