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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."
"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."
"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."
"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."
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"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."
"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"
"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation."
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself."
"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
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