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"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation." »Cicero
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"Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation." »John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism
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"If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation." »Xenophon
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"Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected." »G. Macdonald
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"Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia." »William James
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