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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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Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great…
— Thomas Overbury
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PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad,…
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If you avoid difficult things, great things will avoid you.
— George H. Brimhall
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
— Walter Pater
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
— Pindar
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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and…
— Samuel Smiles
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