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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.
You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity read more
A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.
No pressure, no diamonds.
No pressure, no diamonds.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be read more
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet".
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change read more
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
