A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

Quote by William Lyon Phelps

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The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to...

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to...

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else,...

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else,...

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good...

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good...

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy...

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy...

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can...

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can...

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect...

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect...

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to...

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to...

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and...

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and...

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual...

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual...

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean...

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean...

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than...

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than...

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until...

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until...

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy....

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy....

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who...

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who...

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who...

I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who...

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past...

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past...

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed...

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed...