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1625 Essayist Quotes

As is our confidence, so is our capacity

Our Confidence Capacity
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Grace Defined Harmony Soul
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

Pain Concern Gives Destruction
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Prosperity Great Teacher Adversity
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Better Read Write Able
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

Happy True Nature Age
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Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Zeal Will More Knowledge
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Great thoughts Practice Acts
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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Grace Women Effect Beauty
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

You Win Faith Victory
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Man Great Lifetime History
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hope Possession Wretched Low
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Those who can command themselves command others.

Who Command Themselves Others
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Man Opinion Rules Morality
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

Never Cease Think Manner
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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead

Ways Thinking Follow Lead
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Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all

Anyone Experienced Ecstasy Betrayal
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We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning

We Ink Page Meaning
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

What Need Hatred Ideas
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To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

Write Resort Betrayed Someone
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beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

Beauty Ugliness Developing Purest
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Worse Dreams Youth Young
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Achieve Harmony Height Elegance
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Man Dream Order Darkness
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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Power End Shadow Image
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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Object Revolution Liberation Ideology
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Crimes People History Man
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The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

Time Reasoning Past Fight
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There is no limit to desire but desire's needs

Limit Desire Needs
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The writer is more servant than master of his story.

Writer Servant Master Story
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Only very odd people don’t realize that truth-telling is always a relative value.

People Truth Value
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Where religious values might be relative, intellectual values fleeting, moral values ambiguous, and aesthetic values dependent upon an observer, the existence of any thing is infinite.

Religious Values Moral Infinite
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The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.

Way World Writer's block
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Fate often enough will spare a man if his courage holds

Fate Spare Man Courage
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Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign

Art Creepy First Sign
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What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.

Art Stories Moment Human experience
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Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

Mastery Instant Power Time
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Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.
Art Way Thinking Reality
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The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

Subject Fiction Emotion Beliefs
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Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

Self pity Addictive Pleasure Reality
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We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

Read Novel Page Images
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Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know

Limiting Imagination Writing Know
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So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age

Childhood Feels Happens Age
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I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!

Believe Energy Grief Lead
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Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers

Noblest Hopes Grow Pursue
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One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel

Crazy Write Great novel
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Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind.

Capable Writing Fiction Mind
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When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.

People Serving Life Meaningless
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When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

Child Love Calm Lived
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Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.

Great Nationally Leadership Supported
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