“Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.”
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.