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Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Educator
Nation: American
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Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

Tags: Evil, Good, Often

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.

Tags: Death, Fear, Life

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Tags: End, Single, Year

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Tags: Both, Greatness, Truth

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Tags: Education, Human, Until

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Tags: Desire, Learn, Teacher

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Tags: Give, Happen, Wait

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Tags: Die, Humanity, Victory

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Tags: Between, Lost, Sunrise

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Tags: Education, Great, Men

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.

Tags: Books, Children, Means

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Tags: Former, Less, Schools

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Tags: Break, Cannot, Last

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

Tags: Education, Outside, Political

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Tags: Between, Both, Sunrise

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Tags: Child, Fear, Heart

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Tags: Manners, Mature, Morals

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Tags: Knowledge, Power, True

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Tags: Desire, Learn, Teacher

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.

Tags: May, Money, Time

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Tags: Others, Ourselves, Undoing

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Tags: Light, Lost, Truth

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Tags: Alone, Best, Education
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Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Tags: Evil, God, Good

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Tags: Forget, Him, Truth

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

Tags: Act, Divine

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Tags: Evil, Men, Why

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Tags: Fear, Human, Pity
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