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All Quotes Collection
"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."
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"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."
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"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."
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"Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol."
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"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying."
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"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
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"Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire."
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"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way."
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"The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody."
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"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense."
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"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."
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"We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do."
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"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense."
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"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
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"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time."
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"Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers."
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"All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I."
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"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
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"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain."
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"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
70
"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
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"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."
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"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
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"Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right."
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"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."
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"They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true."
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"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe."
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