LESSON in Classic Quotes

1  This lesson I have tried to carry with me ever since.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

2  It did not take them long to learn a different lesson.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.

3  During these two weeks I was taught a lesson which I shall never forget.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

4  This lesson we began teaching before we had anything in the shape of a bath-house.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.

5  Often I would have to walk several miles at night in order to recite my night-school lessons.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

6  I also learned a valuable lesson at Hampton by coming into contact with the best breeds of live stock and fowls.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

7  The making of these bricks taught me an important lesson in regard to the relations of the two races in the South.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.

8  These night lessons were so welcome that I think I learned more at night than the other children did during the day.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

9  I sometimes feel that almost the most valuable lesson I got at the Hampton Institute was in the use and value of the bath.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

10  After a while I succeeded in making arrangements with the teacher to give me some lessons at night, after the day's work was done.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

11  The lesson that my mother taught me in this has always remained with me, and I have tried as best as I could to teach it to others.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

12  From his example in this respect I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.

13  It is now long ago that I learned this lesson from General Armstrong, and resolved that I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.

14  At any rate, I here repeat what I have said more than once before, that the lessons that I learned in the home of Mrs. Ruffner were as valuable to me as any education I have ever gotten anywhere else.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

15  The first night I slept under both of them, and the second night I slept on top of them; but by watching the other boys I learned my lesson in this, and have been trying to follow it ever since and to teach it to others.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

16  I do not think this would be true, because the Negro is a much stronger and wiser man than he was thirty-five years ago, and he is fast learning the lesson that he cannot afford to act in a manner that will alienate his Southern white neighbours from him.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.

17  This lesson, I am pleased to be able to say, has been so thoroughly learned and so faithfully handed down from year to year by one set of students to another that often at the present time, when the students march out of the chapel in the evening and their dress is inspected, as it is every night, not one button is found to be missing.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.