Wise Phrases

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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

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Oh, but you know, you do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: What there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

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Impropriety is the soul of wit.

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A man of truth must also be a man of care.

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Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

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If you're trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.

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In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.