Education commences at the ...

Education commences at the mother\'s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Hosea Ballou

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Seneca the Younger

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Winston Churchill

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill

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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.

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Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

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Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

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It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

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True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

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