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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. β€œFor the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.
β€” Plutarch
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
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