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God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.
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Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
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I hold Education to be an organic necessity of a human being.
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.
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Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure can also agonize with pain.
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The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
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Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.
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Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.
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Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
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Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
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Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
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It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.
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To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.
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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
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The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
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Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
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If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
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He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Born:
May 4, 1796
Died:
August 2, 1859
(aged 63)
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