Ann Plato Quotes

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In proportion to the education of a nation, it is rich and powerful.

Ann Plato
I begged him, father do not go,
For when you left me last,
You said you would not go again:
My childish joys are past.

Ann Plato
Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.

Ann Plato
A society or people are always considered as advancing, when they are found paying proper respect to education. The observer will find them erecting buildings for the establishment of schools, in various sections of their country, on different systems, where their children many at an early age commence learning, and having their habits fixed for higher attainments.

Ann Plato
[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.

Ann Plato
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

Ann Plato
Our whole life is often a life of suffering. We can not engage in business, or dissipate ourselves in pleasure and riot as irreligious men too often do: We must bear our sorrows in silence, unknown and unpitied. We must often put on a face of serenity and cheerfulness when our hearts are torn with anguish, or sinking in despair.

Ann Plato
Education is a system which the bravest men have followed.

Ann Plato
Then when in silence thou doest walk,
Nor being round with whom to talk;
When thou art on the mighty deep,
And do in quiet action sleep;
If we no more on earth do meet,
Forget me not.

Ann Plato