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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius…
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
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Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
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We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.
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Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people…
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Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes…
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use
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