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"That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened."
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"You win minds through your brilliance. You win hearts through your tenderness. You win souls through your benevolence."
"Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!"
"What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say."
"He who illumines one has begun illumining the world."
"When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!"
"To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!"
"If you submit to your gift, you will become known and influential."
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"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
"The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief."
"If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead."
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."
"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."
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