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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
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Nothing
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
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Act
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
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Education
Safety
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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Victory
Humanity
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.
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Men
Evil
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.
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Evil
Quarrel
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
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Determination
Content
Right
Will
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
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Truth
Greatness
Forget
Man
Will
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.
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Schools
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.
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Education
Men
Balance
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.
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Reward
Sunset
Yesterday
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
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Manners
Morals
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
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Habit
Day