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"Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry."
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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."
"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
"A sage's mind is greater than a warrior's sword."
"It's ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used!"
"Every experience in the past, prepares us for today. And the present experience equip us for the future."
"The Holy Bible is the greatest book."
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"The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom."
"The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty."
"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."
"Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable."
"Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them."
"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."
"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles."
"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."
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