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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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Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in…
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We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach,…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of…
— Alexander MacLaren
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It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of…
— Elizabeth Drew
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I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing…
— John Keats
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The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of…
— Ellen G. White
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