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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."

"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."

"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."

"Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship."

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."

"The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."

"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."

"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
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