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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"
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"The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge."
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"If a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading."
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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"I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher."
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"And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another."
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"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."
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"He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust," he said."It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short."
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"Homework doesn't end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning."
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"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause."
Fear

"The wildest colts make the best horses."
Learning

"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."
Man

"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."
Happiness

"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."
Friendship

"Character is long-standing habit."
Character

"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."
Listening

"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist."
Fate

"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
Power

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
Fire
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