| Quotes |
Topic |
| Accuracy | Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. |
| Accuracy | Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. |
| Age | Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so. |
| All About Love | Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. |
| All About Self | People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves. |
| Anger | To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -Tryon Edwards. |
| Books and Reading | We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. |
| Choice | Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. |
| Compromise | Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both. |
| Education | The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. |
| Exaggeration | Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. |
| Grave | We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. |
| Inspirational | To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. |
| Literature | How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. |
| Memory | The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds. |
| Miscellaneous | Never be so brief as to become obscure. |
| Mystery | Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain. |
| Opinion | He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. |
| Prejudice | He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error. |
| Psychological Subjects | Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. |
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