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"If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other."
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"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public."
Leadership
"Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world."
Happiness
"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."
Hope
"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."
Education
"There is nothing good or evil save in the will."
Self-Control
"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
Challenge
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."
Reflection
"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."
Education
"What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery."
Philosophy
"Bear and forbear."
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"He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind."
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"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by."
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"Reading is an activity of civilized beings."
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"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"
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"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."
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"Dare to read."
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"The greatest treasures are books."
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"Do not be ready to listen to anyone who is ready to show you your past mistakes instead, be ready to listen to someone who is ready to show you the untold lessons from your past mistakes so that you may be able to skip your future mistakes."
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"I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher."
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"We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life."
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