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    John Donne
    “Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”
    ― John Donne, The Poems of John Donne (Volume 1); Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of the Soul. Notes
    tags: jail, palace, world
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: immortality, knowledge, learning, sharing, teaching
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
    “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
    ― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts
    tags: alchemy, writing
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    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
    tags: intelligence, mind, poverty
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
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    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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    John Bunyan
    “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
    ― John Bunyan
    tags: benevolence, charity, compassion, generosity, helping-others
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
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