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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Forever is composed of nows.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there’s ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The past is not a package one can lay away.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson My friends are my estate.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson To be alive-is Power.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
AristotleAristotle It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.
Bill GatesBill Gates An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy.
Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
Lao TzuLao Tzu Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson All of us are products of our childhood.
Michael JacksonMichael Jackson The highest result of education is tolerance.
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