“I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.”

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“Avoid witicisms at the expense of others.”

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

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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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“Teaching isn’t one-tenth as effective as training.”

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

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“It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.”

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

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“It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.”

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“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”

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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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“If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.”

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

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

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