Aphorisms
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist'.
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