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/ page 234 of 1205 /The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.
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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
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Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.
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Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
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To get to heaven we must take it with us.
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To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
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Instead of pointing a finger, we should hold out our hand.
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In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other. Works indeed of genius fall under no art; heroic minds come under no rule; a University is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations. It does not promise a generation of Aristotles or Newtons, of Napoleons or Washingtons, of Raphaels or Shakespeares, though such miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precincts. Nor is it content on the other hand with forming the critic or the experimentalist, the economist or the engineer, though such too it includes within its scope. But a University training is the great ordinary means to an great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life. It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them.
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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
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If then the power of speech is as great as any that can be named,
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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.
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