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“if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.”

J. G. Holland

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That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

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The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element,…

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Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations…

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In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much…

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I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for the love that urges me to efforts for their good. I hail the great brotherhood of trial and temptation in the name of humanity, and give them assurance that from the Divine Man, and some, at…

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No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the…

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All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline…

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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

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“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~ J.”

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Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

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It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

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To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself…

Jean de la Bruyere

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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of…

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“If there's a will, there's a way! I feel larger than LIFE--and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have…

Donna Scrima-Black

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“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope—and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing—that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens,…

Christopher Hitchens

Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

Horace

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Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or…

Harriet Martineau

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So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get…

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Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love…

Amos Bronson Alcott

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Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Charles Caleb Colton

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All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality…

Paul Schrader

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That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published,…

Charles Caleb Colton

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