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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!'."
"A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys."
"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."
"A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results."
"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
"The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith."
"With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!"
"You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart."
"The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs."
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