People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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His home the Western giant smiles, And twirls the spotty globe to find it This little speck, the British Isles 'T is but a freckle,never mind it.
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
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Where go the poet's lines Answer, ye evening tapers Ye auburn locks, ye golden curls, Speak from your folded papers.
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For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.
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