Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
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