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Nathan Crofton-Bond

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“If grief could burn out
Like a sunken coal,
The heart would rest quiet,
The unrent soul
Be still as a veil;
But I have watched all night

The fire grow silent,
The grey ash soft:
And I stir the stubborn flint
The flames have left,
And grief stirs, and the deft
Heart lies impotent.”
― Philip Larkin, The North Ship

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“I am dying. Every day, with every breath I draw, I am closer to the end of my life. For we are born with a finite number of breaths, and each one I take edges the sunlight that is my life toward the inevitable dusk.”
― R.A. Salvatore

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“Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.”
― Paul A.M. Dirac

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“Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: educational-philosophy

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“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

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