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... education , that improves all the virtue , and corrects all the vice of the former , and of nature itself.— Clarendon . COUNTRY AND CITY . - The corruptions of the country are closely allied to those of the town , with no 54 THE WORLD'S ...
... education , that improves all the virtue , and corrects all the vice of the former , and of nature itself.— Clarendon . COUNTRY AND CITY . - The corruptions of the country are closely allied to those of the town , with no 54 THE WORLD'S ...
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... EDUCATION . What sculpture is to a block of marble , education is to the human soul . The philosopher , the saint , the hero , the wise , and the good , or the great , very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian , which a proper THE ...
... EDUCATION . What sculpture is to a block of marble , education is to the human soul . The philosopher , the saint , the hero , the wise , and the good , or the great , very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian , which a proper THE ...
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... education might have disinterred and brought to light . — Addison . EDUCATION AN INHERITANCE . - An industrious and virtuous education of children is a better inheritance for them than a great estate . Addison . --- EDUCATION AN ...
... education might have disinterred and brought to light . — Addison . EDUCATION AN INHERITANCE . - An industrious and virtuous education of children is a better inheritance for them than a great estate . Addison . --- EDUCATION AN ...
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... education.— Locke . EDUCATION OF CHILDREN . - The education of our children is never out of my mind . Train them to virtue , habituate them to industry , activity , and spirit . Make them consider every vice as shameful and unmanly ...
... education.— Locke . EDUCATION OF CHILDREN . - The education of our children is never out of my mind . Train them to virtue , habituate them to industry , activity , and spirit . Make them consider every vice as shameful and unmanly ...
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... EDUCATION , RELIGIOUS . - What is it ? It is awakening a love for truth ; giving a just sense of duty ; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life . It is not so much giving words , as thoughts -- mere maxims , as ...
... EDUCATION , RELIGIOUS . - What is it ? It is awakening a love for truth ; giving a just sense of duty ; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life . It is not so much giving words , as thoughts -- mere maxims , as ...
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