The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

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Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

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