The tormentof human

The tormentof human
The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.
  

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Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.
Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.
The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge
Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.
.Oneshould count each day a separate life.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.
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Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.
Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.