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• "You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."

• "You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself."

• "Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."

• "There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see."

• "The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

• "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

• "Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

• "Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else."

• "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

• "I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."

• "I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

• "He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year."

• "He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."

• "Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen."

• "As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."

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