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Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Iron
Mind
Rust
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Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Human Mind
Idleness
Iron
Mind
Rust
Mind Human Human Mind
Human
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Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Endowment
Colleges
Effect
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There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Female
Habit
Reform
Females
Habits
Required
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I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Enterprise
I Can
Want
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In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Balance
Couple
Dollars
Thousand
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I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Moon
Mountain
Telescopes
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Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Apples
Tree
Yesterday
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Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Orchard
Yesterday
Apple
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There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is insured for the benefit of my Dear Wife and children.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Children
Dear
Giving
Satisfaction
Wife
Life Wife Me
Benefit
Life Me Wife
Insured
Reflect
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I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Affair
Choices
Companion
Important
Misery
Life Always Important
Considered
Choosing
Depended
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My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Absence
Children
Dear
Dear God
Duty
Expanding
Mind
Devolved
Guiding
Laborious
Minds
Wholly
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I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Book
Economy
Presidency
Protective
Tariffs
Candidate
Favored
Jackson
Opposed
Tariff
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The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Men
Curse
Fellow Man
Land
Soul
Article
Be Happy
Fellow
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The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Fall
Feet
Summer
Tunnels
Above
Creek
Dam
Falls
Lowered
Mill
Tunnel
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I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Cousin
Deterioration
Determination
Detest
Glad
Improvement
Marrying
Persons
Practice
Race
Distant
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As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.
Ezra Cornell / New York State Senator
Acquire
Country
Followers
Frightened
Harm
Party
Political Power
Pope
Religious
Shadow
Substance
Duped
Liberties
Seek
Minds
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