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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Topic: Accuracy
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Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
Topic: Accuracy
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
Topic: Age
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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Topic: All About Love
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People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
Topic: All About the Self
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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -Tryon Edwards.
Topic: Anger
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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.
Topic: Books and Reading
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Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Topic: Choice
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.
Topic: Compromise
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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.
Topic: Education
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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.
Topic: Exaggeration
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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.
Topic: Grave
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To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Topic: Inspirational
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Topic: Literature
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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.
Topic: Memory
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Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain.
Topic: Mystery
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He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Topic: Opinion
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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.
Topic: Prejudice
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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.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin.
Topic: Slander
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
Topic: Society
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Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.
Topic: Superstition
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