"Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be."
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"A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart."
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"Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that."
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"The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known."
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"Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed."
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"But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge."
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"To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas."
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"Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?"
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"Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter."
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"Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind."
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"Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain."
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"Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles."
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"Love must be the same in all worlds."
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"Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars."
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"Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!"
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"Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins."
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"Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life."
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"Education is an organic necessity of a human being."
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"We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is."
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"Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike."
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