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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief, it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."
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"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."
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"A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight."
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"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
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"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
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"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."
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"The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool."
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"If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction."
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"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
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"We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in."
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"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher."
Man
"Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all."
Hope
"The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth."
Heart
"Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away."
Writing
"Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill."
Quality
"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."
Attitude
"And say my glory was I had such friends."
Friendship
"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right."
Truth
"Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!"
Dance
"The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet."
God
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