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"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."
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"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
Wisdom

"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
Job

"There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little."
Man

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
Adversity

"Science is but an image of the truth."
Science

"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
Friendship

"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
Truth

"A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it."
Opportunity

"Wise men make more opportunities than they find."
Man

"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs."
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Personal Development

"But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting."
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Personal Development

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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Personal Development

"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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Personal Development

"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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Personal Development

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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Personal Development

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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Personal Development

"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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