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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope t...more

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When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality...more

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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough

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A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himsel...more

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We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret exp...more

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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it ...more

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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and ...more

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

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That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts ...more

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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is cr...more