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Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Adams
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Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

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A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an ef…

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One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town

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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

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History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

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American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power hou…

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He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

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Friends are born, not made.

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Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

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