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"The first mistake in public business is the going into it."
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"I learn by doing....the same thing over and over and over again countless times."
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"The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance."
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"I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever"."
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"Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side."
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"He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind."
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"To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood the lesson."
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"On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!"
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"Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise."
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"People must make make risks, must make mess in their life's. They must make make mistakes, they must think - This is the part of the proccess "learning"!"
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"Every mistake committed is a learning opportunity."
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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom."
Simplicity
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."
Legacy
"A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather."
Wellness
"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
Reflection
"Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance silence order resolution frugality industry sincerity justice moderation cleanliness tranquility chastity and humility."
Ethics
"Half a truth is often a great lie."
Truth
"If you would be loved, love, and be loveable."
Love
"Ambition has its disappointments to sour us but never the good fortune to satisfy us."
Ambition
"God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'"
Freedom
"I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet."
Philosophy
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