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"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."
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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!"
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Personal Development
"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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"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
Reflection
"If you will not hear reason, she'll rap your knuckles."
Wisdom
"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature."
Freedom
"... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker."
Justice
"To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible."
Life
"God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man."
Wisdom
"If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles."
Philosophy
"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."
Learning
"When in doubt, don't."
Wisdom
"In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen."
Regret
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