A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
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I can but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the duty of happiness as well as the happiness of duty; for we ought to be as bright and genial as we can, if only because to be cheerful ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.
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If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
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