The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903
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I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The BibleDoctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCLet me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world: it gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. The picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
—Susan B. Anthony, 1896Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
—Herodotus, c. 440 BCMan is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100