Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave
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Famous Quotes

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes (English lyrical Poet, Critic and Philosopher. 1772-1834)

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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

Abraham Lincoln

Source: August 15, 1855 - Letter to George Robertson

- Abraham Lincoln

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When all think alike, no one thinks very much
Famous Quotes and Sayings - Walter Lappmann

Fourth of July Quotes

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spanish writer, author of the masterwork ‘El quijote’, 1547-1616)

Sayings

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil
Famous Quotes - R W Emerson

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I regret often that I have spoken; never that I have been silent
- Syrus

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This Too Shall Pass

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: ‘And this, too, shall pass away.’ How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Abraham Lincoln

Source: September 30, 1859 - Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society

- Abraham Lincoln

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In a way, the greatest praise of God is his denial by the atheist who thinks creation is so perfect it does not need a creator
- Marcel Proust

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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions

- Samuel Johnson (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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