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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.