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"Vanity is but the surface."
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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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"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."
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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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"Men blaspheme what they do not know."
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"Men blaspheme what they do not know."
Wisdom
"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."
Philosophy
"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."
Love
"There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration."
Philosophy
"Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them."
Faith
"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."
Wisdom
"The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason."
Philosophy
"As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so."
Happiness
"Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness."
Faith
"If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing."
Life
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