wisdom
A selected quote by MacDonald.
For repose is not the end of education; its end is a noble unrest, an ever renewed awaking from the dead, a ceaseless questioning of the past for the interpretation of the future, an urging on of the motions of life, which had better far be accelerated into fever, than retarded into lethargy.
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I think, therefore I am.
All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
It is never too late to be wise.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.