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"Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table-it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket-that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep."
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"No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion."
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"Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok, we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!"
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"There is no saint here. I have attained wisdom from life's experiences... the positive, the negative, the destructive, the nourishing. I have been medicine and I have been poison. I've learned a lot about heaven from aligning with angels and I learned a lot about hell from acting like a devil. I offer my scars... what you call "wisdom"... as insight I have gathered from my comfort of living within both the light and the shadow."
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"The only thing sadder than hateful people's willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige."
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"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
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"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."
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"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
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"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."
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"Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts."
Purpose
"When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame."
Aspiration
"Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever worries me. Poets are so rare in Blair Water folks don't understand them, and most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry."
Creativity
"True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)"
Friendship
"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."
Home
"But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?"
Superstition
"Even when I'm alone I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships - and nice, jolly little times with people."
Solitude
"Then the immortal heart of the woods will beat against ours and its subtle life will steal into our veins and make us its own forever, so that no matter where we go or how widely we wander we shall yet be drawn back to the forest to find our most enduring kinship."
Nature
"Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?"
Poetry
"Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones."
Reflection
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