Quote by Alexander Pope
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tre

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the trees inclined. – Alexander Pope

Other quotes by Alexander Pope

It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. – Alexander Pope

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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. – Alexander Pope

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Education
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An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate. – Charles Stanley

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Education

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty. – John Strachan

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Education

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life. – Brad Henry

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Education

President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, thats what President Obama believes. – Elizabeth Warren

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I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. – Stephen King

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There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience. – Laurence J. Peter

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It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in. – Malcolm Turnbull

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Yeah, I read history. But it doesnt make you nice. Hitler read history, too. – Joan Rivers

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