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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
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Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
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It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,…
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Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The…
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An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a…
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For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the…
— Lactantius
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Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing…
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There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to…
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There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
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The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.
— Horace
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the…
— Abdolkarim Soroush
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God does not make a mistake. What is a mistake? The dictionary says: a mistake is an error in action, opinion, or…
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