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An idea is salvation by imagination.

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People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

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Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.

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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

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And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

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