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“For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.”
“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
“Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.”
“It's necessary to get the losers out of your life if you want to live your dream.”
“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”
“None but ourselves can free our minds.”
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”
“We only see what we aim at.”
“Don't gain the world and lose your soul. Wisdom is better than silver and gold.”
“Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.”
“It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”
“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door to the future, and enables us to turn the page on yesterday.”
“It is better to be looked over than overlooked.”
“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”
“Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.”
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
“Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.”
“The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
“A needle is not sharp at both ends. ”
“The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.”
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”
“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”
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