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The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.
Bill Gates Source Code · 2025

Quotes

“Think in the morning, act in the noon, eat in the evening, sleep in the night.”

William Blake · The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790 · Primary source

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Let every new year find you a better man.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Observe all men; thyself most.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Today is yesterday’s pupil.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Success is the result of making many mistakes and learning from experience.”

Winston Churchill · You do your worst—and we will do our best, 1941 · Primary source

“What is the hardest task in the world? To think.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Intellect, 1841 · Primary source

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

“He who thinks little, errs much.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

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