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I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything,
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And I once heard Mr. William Hunt, who is one of the first artists, say to a class of teachers, "I shall not try to adapt myself to your various lines of teaching. I will tell you the best things I know, and you may make the adaptations."
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in old times inventors were not always treated very kindly. If people thought they were sorcerers, or in league with the Devil, they did not care much for the invention.
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plenty of instances of the persecution of inventors, even to quite a late date. It is impossible, of course, to say how many good things were lost to the world by the pig-headedness which discouraged new inventions. It is marvellous to think what progress single men made, who had to begin almost at the beginning, and learn for themselves what every intelligent boy or girl now finds ready for him in the Cyclopaedia. It is very clear that the..
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He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.
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Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand!
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