Books are the best of things, well used abused, among the worst. What is the right use What is the one end, which all means go to effect They are for nothing but to inspire.
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There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Every sweet hath its sour every evil its good.
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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
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Men are respectable only as they respect.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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