What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning -- and some of them many times over -- what do you find? That you can swim? Well -- life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
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Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. [Matthew 7:7-8].
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.
To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the read more
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
No one is entitled to the truth.
No one is entitled to the truth.
