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

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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. – Alexander Pope

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Order is Heavens first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king. – Alexander Pope

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No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process. – Louis LAmour

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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women. – Harri Holkeri

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To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education. – Jonathan Sacks

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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that its too late by college. – Danica McKellar

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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. – Charles Caleb Colton

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I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on. – Thomas Hardy

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