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"Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies."
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"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are."

"What you need and what you want aren't the same things."

"It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light."

"In every bad situation we have to see Satan's motives behind a person's actions."

"There's none so blind as they that won't see."

"Look around and you will see what others are not seeing."

"It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?"

"Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding!"

"Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?"
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"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."


"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."


"Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice."


"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."


"No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history."


"We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them."


"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."


"In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates."
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