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"Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know."
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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."

"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."

"A sage's mind is greater than a warrior's sword."

"It's ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used!"

"Every experience in the past, prepares us for today. And the present experience equip us for the future."

"The Holy Bible is the greatest book."

"I never seemed to learn from joy, I earned my portion of wisdom through sadness."
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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."


"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."


"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."


"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."


"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."


"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
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