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"Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not."
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"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."
"Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought."
"There is an undeniable truth that as one progresses further in his understanding of a craft the rest of his life progresses along with it. This symbiotic relationship between all things is experienced on a daily basis, but rarely articulated through conscious thought."
"Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects."
"One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better."
"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?"
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"Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness."
"Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation."
"So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil."
"Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!"
"People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy."
"People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy."
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