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"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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"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"A sage's mind is greater than a warrior's sword."
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"It's ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used!"
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"The Holy Bible is the greatest book."
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"Secrets, Kohler finally said, "are a luxury we can no longer afford."
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"I never seemed to learn from joy, I earned my portion of wisdom through sadness."
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"When you live by understanding, you will escape destructions."
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"It doesn't work, she continues, unclasping her hands, smoothing her skirt. "What you're feeling right now doesn't work. You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back. Believe me. I know you don't want to hear the long view, but let me tell you. You are so young. I know it's none of my business. But still."
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"As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express."
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"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
Life

"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."
Responsibility

"We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war."
Conflict

"Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves."
Truth

"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day."
Adaptation

"Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones."
Recognition

"Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it."
Knowledge

"The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power."
Power

"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."
Strength

"He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still."
Time
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