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"Silence does not always mark wisdom."
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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
"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."
"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."
"Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper."
"Sometimes only when opportunity stops banging to be let in do we notice its absence!"
"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
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"Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean."
"In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission."
"The one red leaf, the last of its clan,That dances as often as dance it can,Hanging so light, and hanging so high,On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky."
"Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also."
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