The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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