"A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use."

Wisdom, Tongue

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"A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use."

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"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."

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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

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"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."

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"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."

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"Time is a precious gift."

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"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

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"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

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"There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place."

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"One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more."

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"The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow."

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"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."

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"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."

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"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."

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