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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.

— Hosea Ballou

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Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.

Edge-Tools of Speech (1886)

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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