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“There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended - Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to me, A sinner. Not without purpose did the Lord, Put me to witness much for many years, And educate me in the love of books. One day some indefatigable monk, Will find my conscientious, unsigned work; Like me, he will light up his ikon-lamp, And, shaking from the scroll the age-old dust, He will transcribe these tales in all their truth.”

Years Book Light Age Purpose Lord Mines Duty One Day Remains Tales Like Me Dust Witness Sinner Educate Fulfilled Lamps Monk Shaking Light Up Chronicles Concluding

Author:Alexander Pushkin

“The duty of universities is toward their nation, for which they must prepare leaders in all fields and these must be necessarily ethnically native. For it is intolerable that a nation educate for itself alien leaders in its universities.”

Nations Leader Fields Duty University Aliens Native Educate

Author:A. C. Cuza

“It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion.”

Source: Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.

“We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook”

People Believe Political Movement Duty Educate Outlook Political Movements Vanguard

Author:Steven Biko

“It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.”

Virtue Duty Fit Sacred Privilege Educate Inheritance Successors

Book:The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2

Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2

“I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.”

Knows Children Duty Sacred Educate

Book:Beethoven: As Revealed in His Own Words

Source: Beethoven: As Revealed in His Own Words

“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”

Firsts Healing Education Health Duty Mass Medicine Medical Educate Physicians Medical Care Modern Medicine Practice Of Medicine

Author:William Osler