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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."
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Personal Development

"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."
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Personal Development

"Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper."
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Personal Development

"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."
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Personal Development

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

"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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Personal Development

"When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man."
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"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."
Society

"There is moderation even in excess."
Motivational

"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness."
Nature

"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."
Politics

"Despair is the conclusion of fools."
Wisdom

"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."
Patriotism

"Finality is not the language of politics."
Politics

"Justice is truth in action."
Justice

"To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder."
Business

"A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity."
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