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 To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.  All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. I pay the School Master, but 'tis the school boys that educate my son. The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect Time. A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground. Sadness is a state of sin. The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain. - Epicurus Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle. I never lost a game. I just ran out of time. Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries. What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it. Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. Any fool can criticize, and many of them do. The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities. I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need. When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant. 
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