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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
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Personal Development
"I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."
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Personal Development
"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."
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Personal Development
"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."
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Personal Development
"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
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Personal Development
"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."
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Personal Development
"When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man."
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Personal Development
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one."
Opportunity
"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
Analysis
"The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large."
Violence
"The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
Humor
"You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do."
Regret
"In your country and mine we should have the privilege of making fun of this kind of morality, but it would be unkind to do it here.Many of these people have the reasoning faculty, but no one uses it in religious matters."
Critique
"Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'."
Wealth
"The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades."
Profession
"Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we.""
Attitude
"Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt."
Inspirational
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