Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.
Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.
No garden is without its weeds.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
