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So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and…
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Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with…
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Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice…
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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
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Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
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A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in…
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The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.
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The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for…
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Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.
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Whoever perseveres will be crowned.
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To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of…
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All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing
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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.
— Mark Twain
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
— William Shakespeare
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Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice…
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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We write our own destiny ...we become what we do.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of…
— Unknown Author
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We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.
— Henry David Thoreau
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We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.
— Richard Peck
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
— Cecil Day-Lewis
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I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of…
— Willie Nelson
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I like any and all of my associations with music -writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and…
— Duke Ellington
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The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves.…
— Teri Hatcher
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I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's…
— Andrea Barrett
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