To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. - Henry Ward Beecher

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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.

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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

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If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

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You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.

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Accept who you are; and revel in it.

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert

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