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"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
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"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order."
Poetry
"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."
Imagination
"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."
Advice
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."
Happiness
"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
Soul
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
Future
"Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style."
Bible
"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."
Enthusiasm
"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
Being
"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
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"Deep down in my heart, I know that I know nothing."
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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."
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Personal Development
"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."
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Personal Development
"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."
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Personal Development
"Time is a precious gift."
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Personal Development
"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
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Personal Development
"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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