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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

"Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair."

"It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in."

"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."

"There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."
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