We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.
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Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought for causes which are unpenetrated.
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What is the imagination Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy only the precursor of the reason.
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When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits on his manhood he has gained the facts learns his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
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Only poetry inspires poetry.
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
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