There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
There are still a lot of people who have the expectation that they're entitled to everything and want to pay for nothing.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.
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