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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
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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."
"Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought."
"There is an undeniable truth that as one progresses further in his understanding of a craft the rest of his life progresses along with it. This symbiotic relationship between all things is experienced on a daily basis, but rarely articulated through conscious thought."
"Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects."
"One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better."
"Out of clutter, find simplicity."
"Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature."
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"Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister."
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed."
"Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face-at least to my taste-his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul."
"Come what will, one comfort's always left - that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated."
"To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."
"I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy."
"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure..... Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle , and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?"
"There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man."
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