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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon...  
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influence...  
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.  
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the ...  
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.  
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.  
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them t...  
Our ideals are our better selves.  
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center an...  
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.  
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many s...  
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with ...  
The less routine the more life.  
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence...  
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any...  
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.  
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reveren...   Age
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, fin...  
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.  
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel ol...   Age
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.  
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and find...