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Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. - [Fables] You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much. - [Praise] You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth. - [Truth] Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. - A Few Thoughts for a Young Man [Virtue] Finally, education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. - Lectures and Reports on Education (lecture 1) [Education] Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. - Lectures and Reports on Education (lecture I) [Knowledge] The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good. - Lectures and Reports on Education (lecture VII) [Punishment] But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge. - Lectures on Education (lecture VI) [Ignorance] To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike. - Lectures on Education (lecture VI) [Philanthropy] Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. - The Common School Journal (February, 1843, Printing and Paper Making) [Printing] Displaying page 4 of 4 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 [4]
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