A leading American author, poet, and early civil rights activist.. author poet folklorist and civil rights leader
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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things. Go to Quote / Comment
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. Go to Quote / Comment
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity. Go to Quote / Comment
He that never thinks can never be wise. Go to Quote / Comment
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain. Go to Quote / Comment