"If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable."
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"Observation - activity of both eyes and ears."
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"On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there."
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"You may as well borrow a person's money as his time."
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"We do ourselves the most good doing something for others."
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"The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man."
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"Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect."
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"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."
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"Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing."
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"Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God."
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"Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan."
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"As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance."
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"Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension."
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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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"You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much."
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"Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them."
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"Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students."
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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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"If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail."
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"True glory is a flame lighted at the skies."
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