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"No one does anything from a single motive."
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"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order."
Poetry
"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."
Imagination
"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."
Advice
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."
Happiness
"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
Soul
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
Future
"Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style."
Bible
"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."
Enthusiasm
"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
Being
"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
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"The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same."
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"No one does anything from a single motive."
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Personal Development
"Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'."
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"It's the millenium, motives are incidental."
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Personal Development
"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."
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Personal Development
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