"The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds."
-Frederick William Robertson
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"In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.“
-Frederick William Robertson
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"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 not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it."
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"We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness."
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"The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly."
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"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 mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful."
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"Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated."
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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
-Ambrose Bierce
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