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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
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Personal Development
"I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss."
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Personal Development
"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."
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Personal Development
"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."
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Personal Development
"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."
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Personal Development
"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
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Personal Development
"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."
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Personal Development
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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Personal Development
"Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job, it takes a wise man to make it without working."
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Personal Development
"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival."
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"She'd never been one to think in terms of years, anyway. A person was what they were, and many a man at forty was sixty in his ways and many another was twenty and would never grow past it."
Life
"No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process."
Education
"It has seemed to me that each year one should pause to take stock of himself, to ask: Where am I going? What am I becoming? What do I wish to do and become?Most people whom I encountered were without purpose, people who had given themselves no goal. The first goal need not be the final one, for a sailing ship sails first by one wind, then another. The point is that it is always going somewhere, proceeding toward a final destination."
Life
"To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder."
Faith
"A journey is time suspended."
Philosophy
"I fear there will be no future for those who do not change."
Motivation
"A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination."
Achievement
"Men strive for peace but it is their enemies that give them strength and I think if man no longer had enemies he would have to invent them for his strength only grows from struggle."
Philosophy
"Any man can shoot a gun and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you."
Motivation
"Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost."
Knowledge
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