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 | "You need not tell the truth, unless to those who have a right to
know it all. But let all you tell be truth." | |
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Found in the topic Truth.
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| "It is well to think well; it is divine to act well." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the
great equalizer of the conditions of man, ? the balance-wheel of the
social machinery." | |
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Found in the topic Education.
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| "In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in
obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future
good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the
blind speak of color." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil
with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron." | |
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Found in the topic Motivation.
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| "A house without books is like a room without windows." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear
dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person?s money as his time." | |
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Found in the topic Punctuality.
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| "Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in
the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence,
the other from pride or fear." | |
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Found in the topic Generation.
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| "If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for
truth, and he will find both." | |
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Found in the topic Gravity.
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| "Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we
cannot break it." | |
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Found in the topic Day.
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| "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for
humanity." | |
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Found in the topic Housework.
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