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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.