Ezra Cornell Quotes

#1. I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

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#2. I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

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#3. Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

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#4. There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is insured for the benefit of my Dear Wife and children.

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#5. I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

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#6. The summer of 1830 I ... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill ... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

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#7. I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

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#8. Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing.

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#9. Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

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#10. My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

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#11. The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

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#12. There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

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#13. I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

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#14. In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.

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#15. As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

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