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"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."
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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."

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

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

"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!'."

"A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent."

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

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

"Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy."
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"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come."

"I listen'd, motionless and still;And, as I mounted up the hill,The music in my heart I bore,Long after it was heard no more."

"The eye--it cannot choose but see;We cannot bid the ear be still;Our bodies feel, where'er they be,Against or with our will."

"Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness."
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