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«The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.»
«Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.»
«The great end in religious instruction, is not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up their own; not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own; not to give them a definite amount of knowledge, but to inspire a fervent love of truth; not to form an outward regularity, but to touch inward springs; not to bind them by ineradicable prejudices to our particular sect or peculiar notions, but to prepare them for impartial, conscientious judging of whatever subjects may be offered to their decision; not to burden memory, but to quicken and strengthen the power of thought.»
«Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: instruction
«There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.»
«The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.»
«The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company»
«The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.»
«The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.»
«The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.»

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