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"There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done."
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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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"Silence is more eloquent than words."
Silence
"Every noble work is at first impossible."
Work
"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can."
Man
"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."
Nothing
"Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light."
Knowledge
"There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed, but precisely as dark as he was!"
Wisdom
"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government."
Fairness
"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."
Accomplishment
"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."
Intellectual
"The eye sees what it brings the power to see."
Power
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