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“I have never heard any thing about the resolutions of the disciples, but a great deal about the Acts of the Apostles.”

— Horace Mann

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It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

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Be ashamed to die until you have gained some victory for humanity.

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True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.

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In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

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Ability involves responsibility. Power to its last particle is duty.

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Man is not altogether an imbecile. True, "circumstances do make the man." But they make him only in the sense and degree that he permits them to make him.

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