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Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Every hardship, every joy, every temptation is a challenge of the spirit, that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance, and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

In my room as a kid I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right..

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Imagine being able to sit at your desk and with a few keystrokes on your computer-being able to access almost any information you need from a storehouse of the world's published knowledge.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.