No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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