"All change is not growth; all movement is not forward."

Glasgow, Ellen on change
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"In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on."

Pythagoras on leisure
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"Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door"

Edwards, Tryon on happiness   

"To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better."

Edwards, Tryon on anger
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"The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves--our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all."

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"If you would know anything thoroughly, teach it to others."

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"Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season. "

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"Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood."

Edwards, Tryon on criticism   

"Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence."

Edwards, Tryon on credulity   

"To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own."

Edwards, Tryon on contentment
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"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both."

Edwards, Tryon on compromise
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"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both."

Edwards, Tryon on choice
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"Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?"

Edwards, Tryon on anxiety
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"He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."

Edwards, Tryon on opinions
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"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end."

Edwards, Tryon on pleasure   

"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."

Edwards, Tryon on self-improvement
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"We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living."

Edwards, Tryon on books - reading
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"Never be so brief as to become obscure."

Edwards, Tryon on brevity   

"All diseases run into one. Old age."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on disease
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"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on duty
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"I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on egotism
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"Self-command is the main discipline."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on discipline
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on age and aging
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"Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on age and aging
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"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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"Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on destiny
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Most people would rather give than get affection."

Aristotle on affection
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"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."

Aristotle on dignity
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"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on discipline
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