"By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property."

Wisdom, Appreciation, Excellence, Property

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"Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table-it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket-that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok, we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!"

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"There is no saint here. I have attained wisdom from life's experiences... the positive, the negative, the destructive, the nourishing. I have been medicine and I have been poison. I've learned a lot about heaven from aligning with angels and I learned a lot about hell from acting like a devil. I offer my scars... what you call "wisdom"... as insight I have gathered from my comfort of living within both the light and the shadow."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"The only thing sadder than hateful people's willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Wisdom, Equality, Faith, Humanity

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Wisdom, Art, Quest, Question, Questions

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Wisdom, Curiosity, Existence, Reason, Knowledge

"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

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"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."

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"Fear could never make a virtue."

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"Work banishes those three great evils boredom vice and poverty."

Life

"Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this faint dawn which I seek does not come to me, I shall be consoled to think that my ignorance is invincible; that knowledge which is forbidden me is assuredly useless to me; and that the great Being will not punish me for having sought a knowledge of him and failed to obtain it."

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"Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace."

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"The best is the enemy of the good."

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"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."

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"The perfect is the enemy of the good."

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