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

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

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

"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!'."

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

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

"Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy."
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"Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on."

"Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false."

"The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things."

"God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction."

"If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own."

"There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making."
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