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“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
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“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
― Self Reliance
“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
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“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
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