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Nobody can do it for you.
Nobody can do it for you.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled read more
Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.
My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am read more
My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a read more
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person.
The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person.
