"The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good."
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"Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence."
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"Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear.... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak."
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"He who cannot resist temptation is not a man."
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"Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders."
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"He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise."
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"Knowledge is a mimic creation."
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"If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education."
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"There is nothing so costly as ignorance."
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"We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital."
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"We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence."
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"Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice."
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"Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate."
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"If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets."
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"The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled."
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"The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward."
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"You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth."
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"The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us;– they implore us to think more of the character of our people than of its numbers; to look upon our vast natural resources, not as tempters to ostentation and pride, but as means to be converted by the refining alchemy of education into mental and spiritual treasures; ...and thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wisdom increases with its prosperity, and whose virtues are equal to its power."
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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 be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science."
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"The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves."
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