"Battle not with monsters, for then you become one."
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"Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing."
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"Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star"
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"Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art."
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"Time flies, and what is past is done."
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"The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it."
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"All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible."
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"Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath."
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"Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be."
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"What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits."
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"The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn."
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"One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists."
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"I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter."
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"It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them."
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"War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature."
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"Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments."
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"It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress."
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"We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings."
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"All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast."
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"I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil."
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