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"Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature."
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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
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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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"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."
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"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."
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"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
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"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"People fail to succeed, and it is not because they don't know anything, but because they don't know what they don't know!"
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"A sage's mind is greater than a warrior's sword."
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"Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character."
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"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."
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"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."
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"There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration."
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"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."
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"As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so."
Happiness

"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
Behavior

"The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it."
Spiritual

"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."
Philosophy

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
Faith

"If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world."
Relationship

"The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first."
Creativity
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