There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhat we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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