"There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls."
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"In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet."
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"Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes."
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"Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments."
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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 part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others."
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"Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power."
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"So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
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"Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications."
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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 enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion."
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"In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance."
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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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"Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment."
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"Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care."
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"New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation."
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"In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color."
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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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"The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief loser. The world's scorn he might sometimes forget, but the knowledge of his own perfidy is undying."
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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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"Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves."
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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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