If you live with a lame man, you learn to limp.
- Topic: Example, Persuasion
- Location: California, Napa Valley
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
