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I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

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The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
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Goodness Letter Listening Talk Test Writing
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Ambition Circumstance Hard Work Labor Men Position Work
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one’s movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
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Account Book Chronicle Conversation Movement Need Walk
I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Authority Myself People Slave
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Help Oneself People Refusal Right
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
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Door Journey Joy Mystery Soul Spiritual Thinking
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
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Clear Direction Help Oneself See Solution Statement Writing
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Deal Generosity People Relationship
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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Different Expression Feeling Normal Sympathy Thinking View
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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Goodness Life Moment Reality Stifle Yourself
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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Beautiful Growth Mystery Pilgrimage Slow World
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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Best Deep Escape Oneself Reality Story World
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
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Help Oneself Power Time Trouble
I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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Deserve Expectation Kindness Myself

I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

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I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

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