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Quotes by Poet
"Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt."
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"Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy."
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"The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."
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"O, how wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul! The intellect of man sits enthroned visibly upon his forehead and in his eye; and the heart of man is written upon his countenance. But the soul reveals itself in the voice only; as God revealed himself to the prophet of old in the still, small voice; and in a voice from the burning bush. The soul of man is audible, not visible. A sound alone betrays the flowing of the eternal fountain, invisible to man!"
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"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again."
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"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."
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"We do so much, we run so quickly, the situation is difficult, and many people say, "Don't just sit there, do something." But doing more things may make the situation worse. So you should say, "Don't just do something, sit there." Sit there, stop, be yourself first, and begin from there."
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"We grow old judging othersAnd ourselvesUntil life humbles usAnd makes scared children of usLonging to hold another's handTo hear their kind words And witness their kind deeds done on our behalf.But like children,We sabotage everythingFor nothing satisfies usUntil life crumbles usAnd we are no more."
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"Lead with your heart. The rest will follow."
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"If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice."
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"You are part of God's plan and if you stop yourself because you don't think you are not good enough, we lose your unique and needed contribution to the world. Your life was a gift, and what you do with it will be a gift to God."
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"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."
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"Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart."
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"Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural."
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"My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family."
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"Today is a BRAND NEW day-a perfectly good reason to get up and start over. Never give up."
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"I was lost yesterday, I am found today and I will be forgotten tomorrow."
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"It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place."
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"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
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"Prayer: The act of falling to your knees in pleading fashion, seeking help from a greater power than all else to have failed you previously."
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"If you shoot at a king you must kill him."
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"The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves."
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"If only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful."
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"The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice."
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