Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock
Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
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Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
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If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
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Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
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If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time
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The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it
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There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking
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