| We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. Abraham Lincoln -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion. Abraham Lincoln -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C.S. Lewis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can. Julius Caesar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils. Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The secret in education lies in respecting the student. Ralph Waldo Emerson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. Sam Houston -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. Abigail Van Buren ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King Jr. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure. Mark Twain -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. Mark Twain -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. Mark Twain -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. Winston Churchill -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make for yourself nests of pleasant thoughts, bright fancies, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb nor poverty take away from you; houses built without hands, for your souls to live in. John Ruskin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. Stanley Horowitz -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. Francis Bacon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. Unknown -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every home is a brick in the great wall of decent living that men erect over and over again as a bulwark against the perpetual flooding in of evil. Elizabeth Goudge -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good for good is only fair, Bad for bad soon brings despair, Bad for good is vile and base, Good for bad shows forth God's grace. A Welsh saying -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unite, my roving thoughts, unite In silence soft and sweet; And thou, my soul, sit gently down At the great Sovereign's feet. P. Doddridge -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but habit. Aristotle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. Ralph Waldo Emerson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Books should to one of these four ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight or use. English Poet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. Henry Ward Beecher -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are the trip I did not take; You are the pearls I cannot buy; You are my blue Italian lake; You are my piece of foreign sky. Anne Campbell "To My Child" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. Sophocles -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Could I climb to the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and proclaim: "Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone to gather wealth, and take so little care of your children to whom one day you must relinquish it all?" Socrates -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Character is what you are in the dark. Dwight L. Moody -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. John 1:4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I find television very educational. When it's on I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If any man wish to write a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." Goethe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. Raymond Inmon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I do the very best I know how, the very best I can. Abraham Lincoln -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The pig promised himself that he would never think badly of any creature again. From the movie, Babe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A sour face does not come by chance; it is made by sour thoughts. James Allen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Those that move the world are the ones who do not let the world move them. slightly adapted from D. L. Moody -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By lifting the burdens of others we lose our own. D. L. Moody -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There may be times when you cannot find help, but there is no time when you cannot give help. George Merriam -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whether we look or whether we listen, We hear life murmur or see it glisten. Lowell -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. Helen Keller -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You see we don't believe in making children miserable by too many rules, and too much study. From Little Men by Louisa Alcott -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." The Talmud -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Farmer Hoggett knew little ideas that tickled and nagged and refused to go away, should never be ignored; for in them lie the seeds of destiny. From the movie, Babe |
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| Copywork Jar and Quotes |
| I first got the idea for a "CopyWork Jar" from Penny Gardner's website. Basically, you put things into a jar you want your child to use for copywork. They pick three pieces of paper from the jar and pick the one they will use. They copy it into their copywork notebooks, and initial the back (If you have more than one kid... that way, they don't do the same thing twice.). I liked the idea so much we started it right away. Below are some of the quotes we used in our copywork jar. |
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