The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
A home without books is a body without soul.
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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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.
It isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.