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The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
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From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
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Sitting down on a block of granite, it was delightful to watch the various insects and birds as they flew past.
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Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest.
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Language is our largest common medium, and leads on into literature, which is but preserved speech.
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised
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Nature will bear the closest inspection; she invites us to lay our eye level with the smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
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Entomology extends the limits of being in a new direction, so that I walk in nature with a sense of greater space and freedom.
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Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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The existence of such a government as ours for any length of time is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people.
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Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process.
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In final account, then, not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates.
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After listening to it in all kinds of winds, night and day, season after season, I think I could approximate to my position on the mountains by this pine-music alone.
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The whole world seems richer now that I have found this plant in so noble a landscape.
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We classify too much and enjoy too little.
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Where the mind is tinctured with philosophy, there is no place for grief, anxiety, or superfluous vexations.
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a man who is always living in the midst of these studies and labours does not perceive when old age creeps upon him
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if it has in store any of what I may call the food of study and philosophy, nothing can be pleasanter than an old age of leisure
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One thing you can depend on people being…is people.
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For we never can make anything our own except that which is truly related to us.
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But music never has to depend upon any obvious meaning; it expresses what no words can ever express.
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For joy is knowledge in its completeness, it is knowing by our whole being.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing: it refuses nothing. It receives, but does not keep.