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"Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations."

Robertson, Frederick W. on expectation
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"In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain."

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"Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet--a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine."

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"There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny."

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"The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly."

Robertson, Frederick W. on poetry and poets    Share

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"No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves."

Robertson, Frederick W. on self-reliance    Share

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"The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds."

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"Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing."

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"It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation."

Robertson, Frederick W. on circumstance
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