"Immitation is suicide."
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"Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey."
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"What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say."
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"When the night is darkest, the stars come out."
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"We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate."
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"The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there."
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"Do your thing, and I shall know you."
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"You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be"
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"Every action has an ancestor of a thought."
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"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful."
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"Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation."
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"Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver."
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"...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!"
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"Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?"
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"Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought."
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"The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men."
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"The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity"
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"What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in."
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"Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough."
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"Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament."
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