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«The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
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«There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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«The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they carry off a few things they can use, soil and confound the rest, and revile all»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, / Confusion worse confounded.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
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«The attempt and not the deed confounds us.»
«When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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