The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
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STAY is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
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