"Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on."
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"Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward."
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"The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought."
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"All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature."
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"Language is the archives of history."
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"Every time you wink the stars move."
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"Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand."
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"Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature."
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"A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short."
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"Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended."
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"God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions."
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"When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence."
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"The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency."
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"Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves."
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"Convert life into truth."
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"Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature."
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"Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do."
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"To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone."
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"Character is that which can do without success."
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"The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both."
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