Aphorisms
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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death — that is heroism.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
Practice is the best of all instructors.
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
It is better to rust out than wear out.
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Habit is a great deadener.
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Less is more.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
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