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Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him."

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"Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him."

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

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"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."

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"Your time is the life you have at a particular moment."

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"Some persons can't accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions."

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"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."

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"Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do."

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"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."

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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

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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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"Wisdom is the ultimate blooms of a tree we call life."

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"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
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"Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man."
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"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."
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"If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end."
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"Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."
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"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
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"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."
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