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Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.: Martin Heidegger
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.: Howard Crosby
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.: Henry B. Adams
Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.: Jack Holland
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.: William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)

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