When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
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Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
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Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
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