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He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
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To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.
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Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.
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To be good, we must do good and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
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To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
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Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.
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