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Horace Walpole

"The wisest prophets make sure of the event first."

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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."

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"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."

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"Your time is the life you have at a particular moment."

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"Some persons can't accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions."

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"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."

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"Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do."

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"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."

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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

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"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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"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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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."
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"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
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"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
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"Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."
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