Author: Ernest Dimnet

Quotes

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

- Ernest Dimnet

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

- Ernest Dimnet

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

- Ernest Dimnet

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

- Ernest Dimnet

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

- Ernest Dimnet

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