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Thomas a Kempis
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
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Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
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George Sewell
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
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Buddha
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
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John Holt
...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
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Francis Maitland Balfour
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.
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Friedrich von Schiller
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Edward Albee
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
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Elizabeth Drew
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
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Thomas Carlyle
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
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