"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works."

Strong, William on failure   

"Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

Hubbard, Elbert on nations
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"You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think."

Hubbard, Elbert on education
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"Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance."

Hubbard, Elbert on dignity
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"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do."

Hubbard, Elbert on decisions
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"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."

Hubbard, Elbert on ability
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"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on ability
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"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."

Ball, Lucille on ability
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"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities."

Froude, James A. on ability
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"Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself."

Hubbard, Elbert on failure
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"Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

Hubbard, Elbert on friends and friendship
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"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."

Harvey, Paul on memory
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"It takes time to save time."

Taylor, Joe on planning   

"Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life."

Unknown, Source on maturity
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"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life."

Lakein, Alan on time
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"Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."

Twain, Mark on certainty
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"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them."

Twain, Mark on books - reading
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"If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance."

Twain, Mark on humankind
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"There is a great deal of human nature in people."

Twain, Mark on nature
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"Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it."

Twain, Mark on honesty
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"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

Ford, Henry on ability
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"Others have done it before me. I can, too."

Faunce, Corporal John on ability
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"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."

Blake, William on fools and foolishness
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"The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

Blake, William on excess
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"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps."

Blake, William on sorrow
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"Sorrow is the great idealizer."

Lowell, James Russell on grief   

"Genius is sorrow's child."

Adams, John on genius
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"Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow."

Paterson, Samuel on friends and friendship   

"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

Shakespeare, William on absence
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"Familiarity breeds contempt; and children."

Twain, Mark on familiarity
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"What is now proved was only once imagined."

Blake, William on imagination
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"Every harlot was a virgin once."

Blake, William on innocence   

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on ability
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"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar."

Faulkner, William on ability
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"Ability without honor is useless."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"The obstacle is the path."

Saying, Zen on obstacles   

"The weak in courage is strong in cunning."

Blake, William on cunning
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"The fool who persists in his folly will become wise."

Blake, William on wisdom