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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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Explore more quotes by Joseph Joubert
"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress."
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"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."
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"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."
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"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."
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"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of."
Religion
"The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously."
Man
"Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles."
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"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."
Debate
"Justice is the truth in action."
Truth
"Space is to place as eternity is to time."
Time
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