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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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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."

"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

"Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is."

"My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it."
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"The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children."


"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."


"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."


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


"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."


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


"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."


"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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