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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

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Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming".

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It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.

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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

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Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

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Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

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