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Quote by Sidney Lanier
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon you

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. – Sidney Lanier

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

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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault

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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. – East African Proverb

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. – Norman Douglas

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