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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. - [Teachers] Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. - [Affectation] As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple, until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated. - [Education] Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion. - [Astronomy] Avoid witticisms at the expense of others. - [Wit] Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. - [Shame] Biography, especially the biography of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions from poverty and obscurity to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records. - [Biography] Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth. - [Truth] Deeds survive the doers. - [Deeds] Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. - [Opinion] Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. - [Education] Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. - [Generosity] Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate. - [Genius] Glory is priceless.(Lytton} True glory is a flame lighted at the skies. - [Glory] Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life. - [Books] Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan. - [Christianity] Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. - [Habit] Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind. - [Ideality] If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. - [Belief] If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. - [Greatness] If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but it is also remediable. - [Evil] If the majority is insane, the sane must go to the hospital. - [Majority] Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. - [Ignorance] In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet. - [Idleness] In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat. - [Children] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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