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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, o...more

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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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A man is known by the books he reads.

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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, ...more

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Imitation cannot go above its model.

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Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God with...more

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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.