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Nature loves such woods, and places her own seal upon them.
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Every artist does something more than copy Nature; more comes out in his account than goes into the original experience.
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To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.
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Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession.
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Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process.
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There is the standing danger that the material of formal instruction will be merely the subject matter of the schools, isolated from the subject matter of life-experience.
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In final account, then, not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates.
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it is nevertheless often true that one man's vulgarity is another's lyric
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After listening to it in all kinds of winds, night and day, season after season, I think I could approximate to my position on the mountains by this pine-music alone.
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Nowhere will you see the majestic operations of nature more clearly revealed beside the frailest, most gentle and peaceful things.
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The whole world seems richer now that I have found this plant in so noble a landscape.
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The dullest eye in the world must surely be quickened by such trees as these.
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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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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that
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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty.
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A man who is morose or violent to his equals, is sure to be one who has lived among inferiors, whom he could frighten or worry into submission.
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A provision of endless apparatus, a bustle of infinite inquiry and research, or even the mere mechanical labour of copying, may be employed, to evade and shuffle off real labour—the real labour of thinking.
Joshua Reynoldsverified·Discourse XII, in Fifteen Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy·December 10, 1784
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Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”
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Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
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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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The concepts of "majority" and "minority" necessarily reflect temporary arrangements and political judgments.