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Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[40],{"id":41,"tag":42},5690543,{"id":43,"tag_name":44},382,"children",{"id":46,"quote_text":47,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":48,"source":49,"quote_tag":50,"commentary":9},2713842,"Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[51],{"id":52,"tag":53},5690533,{"id":54,"tag_name":55},9568,"males",{"id":57,"quote_text":58,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":59,"source":60,"quote_tag":61,"commentary":9},2713829,"Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[62],{"id":63,"tag":64},5690520,{"id":65,"tag_name":66},2805,"sympathy",{"id":68,"quote_text":69,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":70,"source":71,"quote_tag":72,"commentary":9},2713817,"Wanted: More Praise I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed less; when we utter in their hearing the good we think and also gently intimate the criticisms we hope may be of service. For the world grows smaller every day. 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Willard, a pioneering American woman's rights activist, and the second president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Although the specific origin of this quote is unclear, it reflects her spiritual and disciplined approach to life. Willard lived during the late 19th century, a time of significant social change and struggle for women's rights.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nThe quote reveals a counter-intuitive truth about the nature of learning and personal growth. Willard is suggesting that she learned to ride a bicycle not as a practical skill or a means to an end, but as an act of devotion, an expression of faith in her own abilities. This mindset is characterized by a willingness to surrender to the process of learning, rather than focusing solely on the end result.\n\n**How to Use This**\nTo apply this mindset today, try approaching challenges as an act of devotion, rather than a mere obligation. 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