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

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."
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Personal Development

"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."
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Personal Development

"Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper."
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Personal Development

"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."
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Personal Development

"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man."
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"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."
Courage

"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."
Truth

"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."
Politics

"The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is."
Emotion

"America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres."
Philosophy

"Every sweet hath its sour every evil its good."
Duality

"Make yourself necessary to somebody."
Values

"No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere."
Nature

"Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us. But if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause; our heat and hurry look foolish enough; now pause, now possession, is required, and the power to swell the moment from the resources of the heart. The moment is all, in all noble relations."
Inspirational

"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."
Morality
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