What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.Joseph Joubert
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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The pain of dispute exceeds by much its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf And when people are deaf I am dumb.
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
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