No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.William Hazlitt
He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.
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In what we really understand, we reason but little
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I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
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The fields his study, nature was his book.
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We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people. Use may in part reconcile us to our own tediousness, but we do not adopt that of others on the same paternal principle. We may be willing to sell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.
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