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“Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.”

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This book delves into the fundamental questions of what education should aim to achieve and the various approaches to teaching and learning. more

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John Lancaster Spalding

John Lancaster Spalding was a prominent American author whose works spanned a variety of fields including history, literature, and philosophy, leaving a profound impact on posterity. more

“The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.”

Thinking Form Term Quality Gratitude Music Is Notion Instance Comparison Melancholy Indifferent Deaf Good And Bad Mourn

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.”

Real Order Evil Causes Views Gratitude Judgment Connections Abstract Good And Evil Imaginary True Knowledge

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character.”

Character Use Mother Term United Virtue Duty Gratitude Grateful

Author:Julius Bate

“Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.”

Ifs Men Enjoy He Man Gratitude Plates

Author:Seneca the Younger

“When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.”

Remember Next Happened Gratitude Luck Ill Glad Ease Tension Why Not Relative Next Time Pauses Tempted

Author:Dale Carnegie

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