Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

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Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil wearisome; lift up our hearts, O God, to the things worthwhile-sunshine and night, the dripping rain, the song of the birds, books and music, and the voices of our friends. Lift up our hearts to these this night and grant us Thy peace. Amen.

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I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

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A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

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Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

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I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.

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The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

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The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

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