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Oh men! Men! Race of crocodiles, as Karl Moor says,’ the count exclaimed, brandishing his two clenched fists towards the heads of the crowd. ‘How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one
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“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Thou art a dreaming thing,
A fever of thyself.”
― Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
A fever of thyself.”
― Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
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