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8803 Writer Quotes

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
Always Forest Happens Must
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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Talent Can Genius Does
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Best Teacher Suggests Dogmatizes
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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Life Beautiful Art Moves
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Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Art Science Meeting point Method
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Bravery Deal Enemies Friends
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Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Friend Times Life Few
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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
Each Ending Liking Other
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Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Chance Happens Account Gift
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
Finished First Old Six
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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Happiness Virtue Happiest Best
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Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Absurd Little Make More
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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

After Again Carry Harry
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If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Industrious Picture Wealth Generous
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Anything Enough Got Nerve
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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Truth Ocean Nature Track
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Death is just life's next big adventure.

Adventure Big Death Just
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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

You Loved Show Fault
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Fear Increases Itself Name
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

Love One Great Woe
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Else Even Good Good Sign
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Did Even Foolproof He
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

Beneath Rule Great Pen
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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Choosing Humans Knack Precisely
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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

Luck Fancy Name Ready
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Afraid Cabin Holding Long
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Does Dreams Dwell Forget
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The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
Easiest Person Deceive
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Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

Against Ashamed Bothering Hold
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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Fresh mind Body Drain Yesterday
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

Anything Brain Itself Keeps
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Best Eat Must Our
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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Gray Hair Knows Age
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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Beautiful Caution Great Must
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What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

Come Coming Does Just
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When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Person World Better Pound
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Age Cannot Feels Forget
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I really don't believe in magic.
Believe Magic Really Don't
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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Wandering Happiness Narrow Compass
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

Dreams Expected I Write Just
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Fool Flatters Himself Wise
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Amusing Backgrounds Been Both
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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Enthusiasm Genius Sincerity Truth
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The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Enough Lies Moment Old
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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Every man Vigilantly Resolves Genius
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Against Anyone Fates Intelligence
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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Good heart Heads World
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Power Characteristically Calmness Strength
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Climbing Depression Efforts Entails
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Away Failure Means Stripping
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