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- The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these…
- All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less…
- Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets…
- The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because…
- When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and…
- The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by…
- The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what…
- There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the…
- The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping…
- If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at…
- We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still…
- The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.…
- A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He…
- When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain…
- It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may…
- The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance…
- No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely…
- Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs…
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details…
- The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle