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A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.
The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.
It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.
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.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.
Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.
The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.
Do what you will, only do something.
Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.
Our great mistake in education is. . . the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. . . . We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.
Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.