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My wish is to be known only thru my work.
Man is not made better by being degraded.
But the truth is the highest consideration.
Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.
I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.
Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.
No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.
I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not.
Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!
My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.
Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.
I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion
I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.
The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!'
What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.
By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.
The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.
The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.
Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.
In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.
Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?
To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.
I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet.
Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives.
A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.
That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.
I shall try and effect all that is before me to perform; and God, I think, will surely give me strength for His work so long as He directs my line of duty.
The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teaching, mental and moral instructors and exemplars of our times.
I am contracting continually a debt of gratitude which time will never see canceled. There is a treasury from which it will be repaid, but I do not dispense its stores.
Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.
Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbons of France, the fleur-de-lis, Scotland her thistle, and Ireland her shamrock.
The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a stand, and it will twist itself or untwist, according as the air is moist or dry.
It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.
If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the comforts and luxuries, if not many of the necessaries of life, considerably diminished.
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.
I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.
Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits.
Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.
There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical.
What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower.
The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.
I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.
Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.
As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.
There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.