"A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence."

-- Edwin Percy Whipple

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“To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.”

Source : Anne Perry (2013). “Tathea”, p.105, Open Road Media
“As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.”
“There's so much I wish for these days, but most of all, I wish you were here. It's strange, but before I met you, I couldn't remember the last time that I cried. Now, it seems that tears come easily to me...but you have a way of making my sorrows seem worthwhile, of explaining things in a way that lessens my ache. You are a treasure, a gift, and when we're together again, I intend to hold you until my arms are weak and I can do it no longer. My thoughts of you are sometimes the only things that keep me going.”
“We are what we frequently do.”
“beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade”

Source : William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”
“When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people around me are snoring. I don't understand how they can close their eyes when there is so much to see.”
“Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.”
“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”

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