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"A great man is always willing to be little."
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"Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal."
"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."
"I don't know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman - your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I don't know what to make of it."
"All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers."
"We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of ego and habit."
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"Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give."
"As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies."
"Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside."
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
"Tomorrow is a new day, begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."
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