"It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort."
-Quintilian
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"Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite."
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"In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept."
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"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
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"The perfection of art is to conceal art."
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"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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