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Education must not simply teach work

it must teach life.

Upon the subject of education,

not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it,

I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we,

as a people, can be engaged in.

The highest compliment that you can pay me

is to say that I work hard every day.

Great spirits have always

encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Being authentic is more important than being popular.

God is in the details.

I call it like it is.

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Wisdom has its root in goodness,

not goodness its root in wisdom.

Good is positive.

Evil is merely privative,

not absolute: it is like cold,

which is the privation of heat.

All evil is so much death or nonentity.

Benevolence is absolute and real.

So much benevolence as a man hath,

so much life hath he.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life:

it goes on.

The present is theirs;

the future,

for which I really worked,

is mine.

A man is a god in ruins.

When men are innocent,

life shall be longer,

and shall pass into the immortal,

as gently as we awake from dreams.

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land.

You,

who have it to see,

welcome it—and forget not those who have fallen during the night.

Life is a test.

Everybody gets tested.

Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.

The butterfly counts not months but moments,

and has time enough.

Unless you choose to do great things with it,

it makes no difference how much you are rewarded,

or how much power you have.