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Elihu Burritt, born on December 8, 1810, and died on March 6, 1879, was an American social reformer, linguist, and poet. He made significant contributions to language teaching and translation, particularly known for his research on Chinese language.

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World Kind Children Beautiful Father Language Given Boys Watches Heard Beats Scripture Bitter Gentle My Children Good Boy Beautiful Thoughts

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“Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.”

Giving Should Littles Lessons Argument Wit Noise Lightning Volume Thunder Orators Oratory

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“All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense.”

Mind Art Beautiful Humanity Order Pleasure Creation Increase Architecture Invention Conception Pencils Nature And Art

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“Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.”

Mind Littles Running Certain Noise Vehicle Loaded

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“All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.”

Has Beens Facts Time Process Patient Accomplished Particles Ants

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“Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.”

Character Facts Lying Existence Responsibility Peril

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“Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.”

Men May Play Earth Heaven Kindness Fingers Tunes Smallest Good Will Sweetest Harps

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“Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.”

Mind May Hands Law Poor Knowledge Sells Lays Pet Cows Homeless Furniture Stolen Jewelry Lambs Sheriffs

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“Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music.”

Voice Breathing Gentle Peace And Love

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“No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.”

World Humans Human Beings This World Human Happiness

Book:Thoughts and things at home and abroad

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About the Author

Born: December 8, 1810
Died: March 6, 1879
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Quotes: 10

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