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This book delves into the essence of human conduct, exploring the intricate relationship between culture and religion through a series of aphorisms and reflections. It examines the principles that govern social interactions and the profound impact of religious beliefs on individual and collective behavior.
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“To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.”
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“The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.”
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“To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.”
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“The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.”
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“If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?”
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“We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.”
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“Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.”
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“Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.”
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“The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.”
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“The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.”
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“It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day, this is the work of genius.”
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“The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.”
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“When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.”
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“Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.”
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“The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.”
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“The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.”
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“If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?”
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“If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.”
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“If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.”
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“Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.”
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“When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.”
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“If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.”
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“Base thy life on principle, not on rules.”
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“Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.”
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“The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.”
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“When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.”
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“He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.”
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“Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.”
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“In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.”
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“If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.”
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“They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.”
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“If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.”
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“What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.”
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“It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.”
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“It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.”
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“Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.”
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“The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.”
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“If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.”
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“As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.”
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“If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.”
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“Make thyself perfect; others, happy.”
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“They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.”
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“Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.”
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“Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.”
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“Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.”
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“The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.”
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“When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves, imparting to one another only the best they know and love.”
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“There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.”
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“It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.”
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“The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.”
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