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Letter "Q" » quickens
«There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.»
Author: Martha Graham
(Choreographer, Dancer, Teacher)
| About:
Vitality
| Keywords:
all-time, life force, quickening, quickens, The Quickening, translated, vitality
«The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
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defends, disciple, distrust, guides, inspires, Personal self, pupils, quickening, quickens, self-distrust, The Quickening
«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.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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«The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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detection, disturb, dread, fallacies, operations, quickened, quickening, quickens, The Quickening, vigorous
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