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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The read more
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
