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There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
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The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.
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Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself, and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Live, and be happy, and make others so.
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If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change!
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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Every age might perhaps produce one or two true geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.
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