“Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.”
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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.
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
