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We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.


David Henry Hwang

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the sou...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more m...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is mo...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no for...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Men have become the tools of their trade.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his t...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his livin...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will t...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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