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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can…
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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
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It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
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The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best…
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only…
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Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
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Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
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Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the…
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There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread…
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Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily…
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other…
— Plato
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I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I…
— Socrates
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In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Put Your Spouse First: When the children are grown and move out of the home, who will be left but your spouse?…
— Miriam
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To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such…
— John Updike
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It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is…
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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