"Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism."
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"False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse."
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"Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected."
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"Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior."
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"Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error."
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"Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night."
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"There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper."
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"If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen."
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"The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good."
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"Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling service, into the region of beneficent activities. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well."
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"A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one."
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"Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young."
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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 be, may become the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization. Two reasons sustain this position. In the first place, there is a universality in its operation, which can be affirmed of no other institution whatever... And, in the second place, the materials upon which it operates are so pliant and ductile as to be susceptible of assuming a greater variety of forms than any other earthly work of the Creator."
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"If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge."
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"NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors."
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"To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is."
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"Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect."
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"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them."
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"Deeds survive the doers."
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"When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven."
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