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"We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days."
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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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"We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days."
Wisdom
"Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy."
Health
"In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best."
Thought
"Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom."
Authority
"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."
Friendship
"Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history."
History
"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."
Fire
"In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits."
Power
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