Quote #15135
The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once...
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Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman....
Quote #26561
Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which...
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure,...
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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as...
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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky...
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If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As...
Quote #34631
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.