What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning -- and some of them many times over -- what do you find? That you can swim? Well -- life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
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Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
If you don't get a lawyer who knows law then get the one who knows the Judge !.
If you don't get a lawyer who knows law then get the one who knows the Judge !.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.
Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
