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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.