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Study With Desire Is Real Activity; Without Desire It Is But The Semblance And Mockery Of Activity.

There Is No Sphere In Which A Human Being Can Be Supposed To Act Where One Mode Of Reasoning Will Not, In Every Given Instance, Be More Reasonable Than Any Other Mode. That Mode The Being Is Bound By Every Principle Of Justice To Pursue.

My Thoughts Will Be Taken Up With The Future Or The Past, With What Is To Come Or What Has Been. Of The Present There Is Necessarily No Image.

Learning Is The Ally, Not The Adversary Of Genius... He Who Reads In A Proper Spirit, Can Scarcely Read Too Much.

No Maxim Can Be More Pernicious Than That Which Would Teach Us To Consult The Temper Of The Times, And To Tell Only So Much As We Imagine Our Contemporaries Will Be Able To Bear.