Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden … - Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

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No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.

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Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

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Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

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There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

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Do not judge from mere appearances.

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