A little learning indeed may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.