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Let us then be on our way; for our sun is climbing ever higher. Let us be adoing; lest it set before we know the glory and the import of its light, and we sink again into the twilight and the gloom from which we have come.

— Louis Sullivan Kindergarten Chats (1918)

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Verily, there needs a gardener, and many gardens.

Kindergarten Chats (1918)

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

Kindergarten Chats (1918)

We must now heed the imperative voice of emotion.

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Truly we are face to face with great things.

Education (1902)

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

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