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"The maturity of man-that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play."
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"Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard."
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Personal Development
"To grow is not to timidly sit on some safe shore at water's edge and clumsily grab whatever happens to float by me. Rather, it is to deliberately step into waters both calm and turbulent in order to wrestle great things to shore."
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"Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me."
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"She knew Neal loved her. Good for him for realizing it wasn't enough to make him happy. That was very mature of him. He was probably saving them both a lot of heartache."
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"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
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Personal Development
"Only diligence will give you wealth."
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Personal Development
"It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions."
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"I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares."
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"It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them."
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"All that is necessary for a student is access to a library."
Education
"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."
Wisdom
"It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."
Freedom
"If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience."
Education
"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."
Freedom
"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
Life
"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
Freedom
"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it."
Justice
"Delay is preferable to error."
Wisdom
"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
Leadership
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