“ The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. ”
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“ Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. ”
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“ Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. ”
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“ While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. ”
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“ Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. ”
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“ Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. ”
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“ Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. ”
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“ 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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“ Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. ”
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“ Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. ”
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“ 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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“ The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us… ”
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“ That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ”
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“ Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides. ”
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“ Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides. ”
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“ Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. ”
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“ The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism. ”
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“ While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. ”
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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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“ Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps. ”
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“ Cruelty stares at me from the butcher's face. I tread amidst carcasses. I am in the presence of the slain. The death-set eyes of beasts peer at me and accuse me of belonging to the race of murderers. ”
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“ The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us… ”
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“ That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ”
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“ Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. ”
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