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"You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task."
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"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts."
Thought

"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
Beauty

"You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task."
Difference

"Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works."
Beauty

"Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
Lie

"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."
Art

"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."
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"Philosophy will clip an angel's wings."
Philosophy

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
Beauty

"Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
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"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."
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Personal Development

"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."
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"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
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Personal Development

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
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Personal Development

"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."
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Personal Development

"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
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"I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level."
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"There is just a major difference between the sound of analog tape and digital tape."
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"I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor."
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