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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

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Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

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What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.

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"If You Would Take, You Must First Give, This Is The Beginning Of Intelligence."

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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

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If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.

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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

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‎This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.

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I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

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Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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