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/ page 473 of 1205 /Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.'
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
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Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake,...
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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They are slaves who fear to speak, For the fallen and the weak.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
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Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
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