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

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

A mans first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world. – Joseph Addison

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Censorship
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. – Joseph Addison

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Happiness
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object; unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view. – Joseph Addison

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My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child. – Debra Messing

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As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. – William Godwin

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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. – Gregory Bateson

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Education

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer. – Alphonso Jackson

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Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness. – Author Unknown

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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. – Francis H. Bradley

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