"By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn."

Proverb, Latin on learning
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"A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."

Rogers, Will on learning
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"You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you."

Sher, Barbara on learning
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"Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master."

Franklin, Benjamin on learning
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"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Twain, Mark on ambition
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"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on discipline
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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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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Aristotle on equality
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

Aristotle on excellence
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."

Aristotle on achievement
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"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

Aristotle on goals
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"It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."

Aristotle on goodness
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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"Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on duty
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"Most people would rather give than get affection."

Aristotle on affection
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"The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one."

Aristotle on affection
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"In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?"

Twain, Mark on america
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"A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time."

Twain, Mark on habit
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"To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times."

Twain, Mark on habit
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"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."

Twain, Mark on happiness
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"When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."

Twain, Mark on ignorance
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"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up."

Twain, Mark on indecision
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"We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race."

Twain, Mark on success
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"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."

Twain, Mark on books - reading
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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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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"My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water."

Twain, Mark on books - reading
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"The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present."

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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"How much of human life is lost in waiting."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on expectation
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"The eye is easily frightened."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eyes
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"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
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"The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on familiarity
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"Whatever limits us we call fate."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fate
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"If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fate
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"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fate
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"A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faults
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"Fear always springs from ignorance."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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