Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

May I govern my passions with absolute sway,
And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.

May I govern my passions with absolute sway,
And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the
beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the
beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning
is perilous.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning
is perilous.

Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It
merely intensifies it. We can have but one great read more

Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It
merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at
best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as
often as possible.

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned.
Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into
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Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned.
Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into
practice intelligently.

Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And learning wiser grow without his read more

Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And learning wiser grow without his books.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.