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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
Deeds survive the doers.
Knowledge is a mimic creation.
School is the cheapest police.
Love must be the same in all worlds.
There is nothing so costly as ignorance.
Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.
Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
Education is an organic necessity of a human being.
God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.
You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?
He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.
Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.
The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.
Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.
If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.
To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.
