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"I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books."
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"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."
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"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance."
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"A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us."
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"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
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"The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers."
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"The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education."
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"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing."
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