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I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to...
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The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything —...
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and...
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The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To...
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God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers,...
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Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
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Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation.
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
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Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the...
Quote #20297
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is...