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I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.

What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.

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The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.

We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a...

Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?

'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'

I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.

I shall try and effect all that is before me to perform; and God, I think, will surely give me strength for His work so long as He directs my line of duty.

Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!

That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.

I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.

My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.

I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.

I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not.

I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work.

There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.

My wish is to be known only thru my work.

Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits.

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