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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, read more
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. -Horace Mann.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered read more
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.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of read more
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.
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's read more
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.
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he
is ignorant, and it read more
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he
is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of
universal knowledge.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children read more
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.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality read more
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.