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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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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
October 25, 1735
Died:
August 18, 1803
(aged 67)
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