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Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression.

Where the mind is tinctured with philosophy, there is no place for grief, anxiety, or superfluous vexations.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

the great thing in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be.