Let us teach that the honor of a nation consists not in the forced submission of other states, but in equal laws and free institutions, in cultivated fields and prosperous cities in the development of intellectual and moral power, in the diffusion of knowledge, in magnanimity and justice, in the virtues and blessings of peace.
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He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.William Channing
A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.
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What is mysterious, secret, unknown, cannot at the same time be known as an object of faith.
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There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. These are periods when...to dare is the highest wisdom.
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The essential and unbounded mercy of my Creator is the foundation of my hope, and a broader and surer the universe cannot give me.
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