Quote by Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human s

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul. – Joseph Addison

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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. – Joseph Addison

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Happiness
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Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. – Joseph Addison

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Age
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? – Joseph Addison

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Father
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I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, Is it? Why? Why is it like that? Sometimes that questioning leads to something more. – Alice Englert

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Education

Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future. – Carol Bellamy

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Education

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. – Marian Wright Edelman

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Education

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. – John F. Kennedy

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Education

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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. – Ogden Nash

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Whos a boy gonna talk to if not his mother? – Donald E. Westlake

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mothersday

I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so youll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign. – Karen Duffy

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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. – Thomas Huxley

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Learning