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“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”
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“If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”
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“Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.”
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“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.”
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“Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.”
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“Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.”
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“Self-command is the main discipline.”
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“A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.”
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“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
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“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.”
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“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
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