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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn read more
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least read more
The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least all such as could be said
To be the most remote from common use,
In all these he was much and deeply read.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of read more
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Learn the fundamentals of the game at your leisure and stick with them. Band-aid remedies never last.
Learn the fundamentals of the game at your leisure and stick with them. Band-aid remedies never last.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And learning wiser grow without his read more
Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And learning wiser grow without his books.
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them read more
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.