Bryant H. McGill Quotes About Literature
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Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.
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While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
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The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
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Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
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No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.
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It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
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Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
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Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
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There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
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Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
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A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
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True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.
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There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.
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It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
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A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
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The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
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Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
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Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
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Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
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A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
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Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
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He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
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One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
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An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
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Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
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In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
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Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
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You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.
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The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
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