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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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Be content that others have position, if thou hast ability: that others have riches, if thou hast virtue.
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It is not worth while to consider whether a truth be useful—it is enough that it is a truth.
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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.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
The test of the worth of a school is not the amount of knowledge it imparts, but the self-activity it calls forth.
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When the mind has grasped the matter, words come like flowers at the call of spring.
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Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
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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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As display is vulgar, so fondness for jewelry is evidence of an uncultivated mind.
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Wouldst thou bestow some precious gift upon thy fellows, make thyself a noble man.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.
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Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind.
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As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.
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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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They who admire and reverence noble and heroic men are akin to them.
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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.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.
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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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