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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
"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."
"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."
"Wisdom is not in intelligence but in simplicity."
"Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper."
"Sometimes only when opportunity stops banging to be let in do we notice its absence!"
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"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."
"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."
"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."
"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."
"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."
"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."
"That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time."
"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."
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