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The most respectful deference is due to doubts originating in pure patriotism and sustained by venerated authority.
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Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”
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Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
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He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception.
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Free trade in labour and equality of training, intellectual or physical, is essential if the organic aptitudes of a sex or class are to be determined.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
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In short, all artificial education ought to be an anticipation of natural education.
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Sensation is unorganized stimulus, perception is organized sensation, conception is organized perception, science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life: each is a greater degree of order, and sequence, and unity.