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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."
"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."
"Wisdom is not in intelligence but in simplicity."
"Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper."
Explore more quotes by Carl Sandburg
"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
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