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    A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

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    A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

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    A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

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    A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

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    All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

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    A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.

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    A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

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    Art 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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    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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    Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

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    Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

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    Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

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    Don't be afraid of showing 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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    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.

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    Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

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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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    Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.

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    False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

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    Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

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    Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

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    Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

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    Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

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    Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks along, the flowers stretch out from the hedges, or look up from the ground, and as each year fades away, he looks back on a fresh store of happy memories.

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    Here are the three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions.

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    How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

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    It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.

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    It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

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    It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

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    Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

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    Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.

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    Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

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    Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

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    Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

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    Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

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    Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

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    Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

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    Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

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    Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early condition of the individual indicates that of the race,-that the best test of the affinities of a species are the stages through which it passes. So also it is in the case of man; the life of each individual is an epitome of the history of the race, and the gradual development of the child illustrates that of the species.

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    Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

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    The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

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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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    The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of teaching itself. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.

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    There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist

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    There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

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    The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

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    The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.

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    Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

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    Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

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    To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

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    To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.