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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."

"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."

"Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance."
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"The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles."

"I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics."

"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."

"Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution."
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