Aphorisms
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
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