"Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit."

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"Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit."

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"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Time is a precious gift."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."

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"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory."

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"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art."

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"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."

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"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."

"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."

"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."

"Time is a precious gift."

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."

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"Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard."

"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed."

"Man is only great when he acts from passion."

"Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds."

"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory."

"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art."

"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour."

"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do."

"No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition."

"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."