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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

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It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

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There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

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The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.

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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

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An idea is a feat of association.

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