The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhen the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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