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Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.
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All grand thoughts come from the heart.
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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your
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God is a thing that thinks.
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The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
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Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
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All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
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Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thou
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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.
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Thoughts are funny little things,
They can make paupers or make kings.
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An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Never confuse movement with action.
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There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
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As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
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No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.
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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw materia
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Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing fro
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A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
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You teach best what you most need to learn.
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Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the you
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People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
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Good taste is the flower of good sense.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.
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If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
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As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers.
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Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.
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Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.
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Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
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A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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