A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTTTruth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
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One’s outlook is a part of his virtue.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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Genius–the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
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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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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
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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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If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them — structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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