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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a... →
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them;... →
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long... →
It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.