The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements of the farm should be m...
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I find that with me low spirits and feeble health come and go together. The last two or three months I have had frequent attacks of the blues....
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Paralyze resistance with persistence
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I too mean to be out of politics. The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment gives me the boon of equality before the law, terminates my enli...
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The Southern States are uneasy at the prospect of [Abraham] Lincoln's election today. The ultra South threatens disunion, and it now looks as ...
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Our wedding day, twenty years ago! A happy day. Darling is handsomer than she was then, with a glorious flow of friendly feeling and cheerfuln...
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Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven a...
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Have been reading 'Genesis' several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for 'spiritual consolation,' 'instruction,' etc., not as an infidel read...
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If the Union is now dissolved it does not prove that the experiment of popular government is a failure.... But the experiment of uniting free ...
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General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is how to distri...
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While your rheumatism stays with you I naturally feel anxious to hear often. If you should be so unlucky as to become a cripple, it will certa...
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Almost two months married.... A better wife I never hoped to have.... She bears with my 'innocent peculiarities' so kindly, so lovingly.... Le...
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From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
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Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.
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I shall not be surprised if Colonel [John Charles] Fremont receives less than one hundred electoral votes. But, after all, the good cause has ...
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It seems to me that the most important thing in Texas, as everywhere else, is education for all. I, of course, don't believe in forcing whites...
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I must resist it [a rider on an appropriation bill] to the last extremity. I say, first, I object to the repeal of important legislation desig...
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A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial...
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There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in.
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Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; ind...
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Conviction.
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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'
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The real grounds of difference upon important political questions no longer correspond with party lines.... Politics is no longer the topic of...
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The gloomy theology of the orthodox—the Calvinists—I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions—nay, most of the notions—which orth...
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My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.
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When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.
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There is only one terminal dignity -- love.
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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
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The Senate and House in the Forty-sixth Congress being both Democratic will insist on the right to repeal the election laws [enforcing the Fou...
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Marriage is like a war. There are moments of chivalry and gallantry that attend the victorious advances and strategic retreats, the birth or d...
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