"What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization."
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"Death is no more than passing from one room into another."
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"Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes."
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"Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for, dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid towards the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where life and death are one in the Presence of the Lord."
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"Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."
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"Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings."
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"Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life."
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"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears."
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"The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel."
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"I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary."
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"The fearful are caught as often as the bold."
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"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it."
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"College isn't the place to go for ideas."
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"Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit."
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"Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow."
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"Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful."
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"The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by."
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"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars."
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"Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them."
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"I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound."
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