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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.

— Anna Brownell Jameson Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838)

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As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838)

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

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Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

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I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldwide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.

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