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Erica Jong: Everyone has talent....

Erica Jong: Everyone has talent....

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it...

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Edgar Watson Howe: A modest man...

Edgar Watson Howe: A modest man...

A modest man is usually admired -- if people ever hear of him.

Source: In Webster's...

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Mark Twain: I am different...

Mark Twain: I am different...

I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie,...

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Mark Twain: I am admonished...

Mark Twain: I am admonished...

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977...

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Mark Twain: No God and...

Mark Twain: No God and...

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face...

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Mark Twain: There is no...

Mark Twain: There is no...

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

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Thomas Carlyle: The world is...

Thomas Carlyle: The world is...

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Source: Letter, 13 May...

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Thomas Carlyle: To a shower...

Thomas Carlyle: To a shower...

To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

Source: History of the French...

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Thomas Carlyle: Virtue is like...

Thomas Carlyle: Virtue is like...

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Thomas Carlyle: The heart always...

Thomas Carlyle: The heart always...

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Thomas Carlyle: Under all speech...

Thomas Carlyle: Under all speech...

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is...

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Thomas Carlyle: Wondrous is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Wondrous is the...

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do more in the same...

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Henry David Thoreau: Our whole life...

Henry David Thoreau: Our whole life...

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and...

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Henry David Thoreau: Distrust any enterprise...

Henry David Thoreau: Distrust any enterprise...

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things...

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Henry David Thoreau: I think that...

Henry David Thoreau: I think that...

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we...

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Henry David Thoreau: The civilized man...

Henry David Thoreau: The civilized man...

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

Source: In Webster's...

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Henry David Thoreau: If one advances...

Henry David Thoreau: If one advances...

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he...

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Henry David Thoreau: The eye may...

Henry David Thoreau: The eye may...

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Edmund Burke: The first and...

Edmund Burke: The first and...

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: When you have...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: When you have...

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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