"If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice."

Proverb, Chinese on advice
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"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."

Proverb, Chinese on adversity
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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome."

Proverb, Chinese on insanity
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"It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned."

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne on learning
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"There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can."

Twain, Mark on speculation
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes."

Proverb, Chinese on power
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"It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving."

Braunstein, Richard on giving
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle on habit
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"Hope is the dream of a waking man."

Aristotle on hope
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"We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time."

Aristotle on anger
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on anger
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"It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found."

Woodberry, George E. on art   

"The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith."

Woodberry, George E. on risk   

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."

Aristotle on education
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"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

Aristotle on education
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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

Aristotle on education
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"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

Lewis, C. S. on desires
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else."

Lewis, C. S. on christians and christianity
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"Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand."

Lewis, C. S. on religion
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

Lewis, C. S. on pain
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"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."

Lewis, C. S. on miracles
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"Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither."

Lewis, C. S. on heaven
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"I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy."

Lewis, C. S. on joy
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"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

Lewis, C. S. on happiness
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"Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods."

Lewis, C. S. on faith
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"We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn'"

Lewis, C. S. on difficulties
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"There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class."

Woolf, Leonard Sidney on class
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"Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Confucius on work
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"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."

Schulz, Charles M. on age and aging
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"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

Schulz, Charles M. on worry
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"Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it."

Connors, Jimmy on experience   

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Thoreau, Henry David on desperation
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"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

Thoreau, Henry David on faith
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"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on love
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