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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
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Experience Knowledge Myself Strange True
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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Deep Friendship Struggle
Those who receive with most pains and difficulty, remember best; every new think they learn, being, as it were, burnt and branded in on their minds.
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Difficult Learning Pain Thinking
But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
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Enjoyment Man Trouble Vice Writing
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
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Determination Future Oneself
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
They insist upon the shaving of the mustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.
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Myself Thinking Young
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
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Impossible Man Myself
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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Art Creation Deserve
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Literature Myself
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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Change Deep Friendship Myself

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

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