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"He who lives in the realization of his oneness with this Infinite Power becomes a magnet to attract to himself a continual supply of whatsoever things he desires. ... The one who is truly wise, and who uses the forces and powers with which they are endowed, to them the great universe always opens her treasure house."
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"A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession."
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"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
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"The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world."
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"Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame."
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"I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the least ineluctable scent on a fearsome trail, but they like to face it alone, going out into the woods, among the leaves, if there are any leaves when their time comes, enduring without sentimental human distraction the Last Loneliness, which they are wise enough to know cannot be shared by anyone."
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"I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply."
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"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
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"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
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"What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity."
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"The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control."
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"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."
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"I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean."
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"Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill."
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"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
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"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."
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"If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life."
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"People learn more on their own rather than being force fed."
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"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
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