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He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

You will constantly be surprised to find how little you really know about your work, and how much more somebody else knows about it than you do.

I want you to make up your minds that you are going to be more nearly perfect, are going to put more manly and womanly strength into the preparation of your lessons each day, that you may be more useful.

No one gets much out of life who does not make his education a real, vital part of himself.

Ever since then I have had no patience with any school for my race in the South which did not teach its students the dignity of labour.

There is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

Although our intellect always feels itself urged towards clearness and certainty, still our mind often feels itself attracted by uncertainty.

Theory must also take into account the human element; it must accord a place to courage, to boldness, even to rashness.

By the aid of the Mechanical Notation, the Analytical Engine became a reality: for it became susceptible of demonstration.

Thus the Analytical Engine will possess a library of its own. Every set of cards once made will at any future time reproduce the calculations for which it was first arranged.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest.

Sitting down on a block of granite, it was delightful to watch the various insects and birds as they flew past.

As the racial distinction of humanity lies in its social relation, so we find the distinctive gains and losses of humanity to lie also in its social relation. We are more affected by our relation to each other than by our physical environment.

Language is our largest common medium, and leads on into literature, which is but preserved speech.

The brain of man is the social organ, the organ of communication. Through it flows the current of thought, whereby we are enabled to work together.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

To specialize any form of labor is a step up: to organize it is another step.

a man who is always living in the midst of these studies and labours does not perceive when old age creeps upon him

he kept his mind at full stretch like a bow, and never gave in to old age by growing slack

if it has in store any of what I may call the food of study and philosophy, nothing can be pleasanter than an old age of leisure