Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, cha...grin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sweet is death forevermore. Nor haughty hope, nor swart chagrin,... Nor murdering hate, can enter in. All is now secure and fast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome a...fter satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too mu...ch patience of this kind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lov...er swooning under his lady's window.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's ...life would only serve to make a chronological table--a fool's notion of history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creature...s are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »