When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.
I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.