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RWE-1 |
A
foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. |
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RWE-2 |
There
is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction
that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take
himself for better or worse as his portion. |
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RWE-3 |
That
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn
can come to home but through his toil bestowed on that part of ground
which is given to him to till. |
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RWE-4 |
That
power which reside in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what
that is which he can do until he has tried. |
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RWE-5 |
Not
for nothing one face, one character, one fact, make much impression on
him and another none. |
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RWE-6 |
With consistency
a great soul simply has nothing to do. |
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RWE-7 |
Speak
what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks
in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today. |
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RWE-8 |
Is
it great to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and
Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and
Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great
is to be misunderstood. |
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RWE-9 |
A
friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. |
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RWE-10 |
Without
ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The
prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. |
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RWE-11 |
Thou art to me a delicious
torment.
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