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"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."
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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
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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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"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."
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"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."
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"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."
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"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
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"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."
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"When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man."
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"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it."
Psychology
"Men blaspheme what they do not know."
Wisdom
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
Truth
"Great and small suffer the same mishaps."
Philosophy
"The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever."
Inspirational
"It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles."
Faith
"Continuity in everything is unpleasant."
Life
"All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end."
Life
"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."
Philosophy
"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."
Love
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