“Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
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Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
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Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Insight makes argument ridiculous.”
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“One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.”
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“It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.”
“Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.”
Source: Opportunity: And Other Essays and Addresses
“Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption”
Source: Means and Ends of Education
Source: Things of the Mind
Source: Means and Ends of Education
“If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“What we love to do we find time to do.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is”
“We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.”
Source: Thoughts and Theories of Life and Education
“Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.”
Source: Means and Ends of Education
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
Source: Means and Ends of Education
“Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion