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"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."
"Originals cost more than imitations."
"When ill luck besets us to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?"
"No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity."
"When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect."
"It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves."
"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."
"When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality."
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"To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example."
"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
"None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again."
"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
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