"I would fain grow old learning many things."

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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."

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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

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"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."

Stephen King, American Author

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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."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."

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"Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Sometimes only when opportunity stops banging to be let in do we notice its absence!"

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

"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."

"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."

"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."

"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."

"Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper."

"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."

"Sometimes only when opportunity stops banging to be let in do we notice its absence!"

"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."

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"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

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"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases."

"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden."

"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance."

"What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there."

"There is no such thing as a lovers' oath."