“ Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ”
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“ The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ”
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“ Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. ”
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“ Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. ”
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“ Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. ”
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“ Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. ”
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“ Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. ”
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“ Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor. ”
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“ Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor. ”
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“ A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. ”
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“ A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. ”
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“ Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us. ”
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“ But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge. ”
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“ Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. ”
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“ Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men — the balance-wheel of the social machinery. ”
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“ Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. ”
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“ A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books… ”
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“ Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men — the balance-wheel of the social machinery. ”
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“ Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. ”
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“ If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. ”
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