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"Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not."
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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
"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."
"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."
"Wisdom is not in intelligence but in simplicity."
"Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper."
"Sometimes only when opportunity stops banging to be let in do we notice its absence!"
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"The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance."
"Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood."
"What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!"
"People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy."
"Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together."
"Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions."
"It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out."
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