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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell. The only way to have a friend is to be one. What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen. Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Faith is spiritualized imagination. Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. Every one can master a grief but he that has it. I don't want to say anything about my kids . . . but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name! No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them. One crow will not pick out another crow's eyes. Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved. He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever; he bores on architecture, painting, statuary and music. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all it knew. It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn. Science is the systematic classification of experience.
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