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"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first."
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"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"
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"Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It's pouring out, it keeps diminishing."
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"You never know what people have endured to get where they are."
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"Why do you compare yourself to others? Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?"
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"Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life."
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"Knowing my soul is my lifetime-study."
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"What you are seeking is yourself."
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"Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world."
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"The world is full of vanities."
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"Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries."
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"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
Unity
"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."
Courage
"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
Self-Control
"Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house. [Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]"
Guidance
"He that can have patience can have what he will."
Unity
"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."
Perception
"But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes."
Reality
"Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day."
Happiness
"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
Ambition
"We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Unity
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