"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."
-Hosea Ballou
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"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature."
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"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."
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"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams."
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"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."
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"Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation."
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"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
-Bertrand Russell
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
-Robert Browning
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
-Marshall McLuhan
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