"The true order of learning should be first,……" — Lydia Sigourney
"The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice."
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Lydia Sigourney
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9 Quotes by Lydia Sigourney
Lydia Sigourney has 9 quotes on this site.
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In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the…
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The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the…
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We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?
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Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point…
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Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention…
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Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful…
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A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor...
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Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
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More Arrangement Quotes
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
— Aristotle
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the…
— Aristotle
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
— Bella Abzug
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent…
— Erik Erikson
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I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees…
— Tony La Russa
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A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's…
— Roberto Burle Marx
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In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
— Will Durant
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Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but…
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