"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
-Plutarch
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"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
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"I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions."
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"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
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"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
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"Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord."
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"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."
-Arianna Huffington
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"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."
-Candace Bushnell
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"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."
-Nicholas Hoult
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
-Camille Claudel
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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
-John B. S. Haldane
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
-Lionel Richie
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