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Fifteen minutes a day devoted to self-improvement, will be felt at the end of the year.

Samuel Smiles

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I have found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish without falling a little in self respect.

Henry David Thoreau

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defence strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

Charles Caleb Colton

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

William Cecil

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!

Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him keep step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to lead the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Henry David Thoreau

Examinations are formidable things, even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Charles Caleb Colton

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilisation.

George M. Trevelyan

There is only one good, that is, knowledge, and only one evil, that is, ignorance.

Socrates

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Samuel Johnson

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers.

Henry David Thoreau

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the masses of men.

Henry David Thoreau

I will be mute, and thou shalt guide my steps
Into the covert from the public road,
Till I have learned their drift. A prudent man
Will ever shape his course by what he learns.

Sophocles

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