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You learn something every day if you pay attention.
You learn something every day if you pay attention.
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of read more
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
The truest characters of ignorance
Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
The truest characters of ignorance
Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too read more
I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not
know.
[Lat., Non read more
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not
know.
[Lat., Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam.]
It was a childish ignorance,
But now 'tis little joy
To know I'm further off from heaven
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It was a childish ignorance,
But now 'tis little joy
To know I'm further off from heaven
Than when I was a boy.