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John Denham

"Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use."

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"Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use."

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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."

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"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."

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"Your time is the life you have at a particular moment."

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"Some persons can't accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions."

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"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!'."

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"Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do."

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"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."

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"Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy."

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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

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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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