Sylvia Ashton-Warner

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

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H.L. Mencken

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

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Robert F. Goheen

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

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G. K. Chesterton

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

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Unknown

Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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Samuel Smiles

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

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Ovid

Courage conquers all things.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

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Dawson Trottman

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

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John Ruskin

It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

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