“Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“The speculator who insists on trying to profit from daily minor movements will never be in a position to take advantage of the next important change marketwise when it occurs.”
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“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
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“I am not becoming someone different, I am simply getting to know the person I already am…”
― The Written
― The Written
“But man should abstain from judging his innocently cruel fellow creatures, for even if nature sometimes “shrieks against his creed”, what pain does he himself not inflict upon the living creatures that he hunts for pleasure and not for food?”
― King Solomon's Ring
― King Solomon's Ring
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