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"Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations."
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"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."
"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
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"In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain."
"The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds."
"Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing."
"Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated."
"The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it."
"The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones."
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