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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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If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of…
— Michael Faraday
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Only let it be trust in God, not in man, not in circumstances, not in any of your own exertions, but real…
— George Muller
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You may give a piece of bread to a hungry person, and when the cravings of hunger return some one else must…
— Daniel H. Wells
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Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and…
— Horace Mann
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In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are…
— Erasmus Darwin
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Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way,…
— Ben Stein
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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is…
— Elizabeth Missing Sewell
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To be truly independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions. The best place to find a helping hand, is at…
— Nishan Panwar
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