“The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.”
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As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
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.
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.