"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."

Wisdom, Experience, Nature, Men, Control

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"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."

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

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

Stephen King, American Author

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

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

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"People fail to succeed, and it is not because they don't know anything, but because they don't know what they don't know!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"A sage's mind is greater than a warrior's sword."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."

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"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."

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"The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it."

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"If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world."

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"The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first."

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"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."

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"The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter."

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"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts."

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"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."

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"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."

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