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The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think, — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.

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The love of God ought continually to predominate in the mind, and give to every act of duty grace and animation.

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To think everything disputable is a proof of a weak mind and a captious temper.

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True dignity is his whose tranquil mind
Virtue has raised above the things below;
Who, every hope and fear to heaven resign'd
Shrinks not, though fortune aims her deadliest blow.


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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.
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James Beattie

James Beattie
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Born: October 25, 1735
Died: August 18, 1803 (aged 67)
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