Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. - Ernest Dimnet
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
- Ernest Dimnet
You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God. - Ernest Dimnet
You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. - Ernest Dimnet
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. - Ernest Dimnet
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. - Ernest Dimnet
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name - Ernest Dimnet
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. - Ernest Dimnet
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Ideas are the roots of creation. - Ernest Dimnet
Ideas are the roots of creation.
Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods. - Ernest Dimnet
Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.
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