Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
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Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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