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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Orphic Sayings (1840)
Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
Concord Days (1872)
Genius is but the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture (1836)
Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
Concord Days (1872)
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Table-Talk (1877)
Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
Table-Talk (1877)
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.
Table-Talk (1877)
Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
Table-Talk (1877)
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Table-Talk (1877)
Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
Concord Days (1872)
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
Table-Talk (1877)
Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
Table-Talk (1877)
Without a mythology faith is impersonal and heartless.
Table-Talk (1877)
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Table-Talk (1877)
Conversation presupposes a common sympathy in the subject, a great equality in the speakers; absence of egotism, a tender criticism of what is spoken.
Faith is the soul of all improvement. It is the Will of an Idea.
The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture (1836)
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps;
Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
Tablets (1868)
The preference of Jesus for Conversation, as the fittest organ of utterance, is a striking proof of his comprehensive Idea of Education.
The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture (1836)
The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
Many can argue, not many converse.
Concord Days (1872)