"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."
-Plutarch
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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 regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."
-Jude Law
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"God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God."
-Ramakrishna
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"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true."
-Lenny Kravitz
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"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."
-Ovid
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"Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline."
-William Hague
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"It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core."
-Phyllis Diller
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