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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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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.
— Julie Burchill
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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from…
— Walter Scott
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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in…
— Charles Simmons
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Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
— Victor Hugo
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Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
— Oscar Wilde
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Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined…
— Vince Lombardi
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
— Oscar Wilde
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