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Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.”
Lead Best Come Books
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I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Cannot Will Recant Anything
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Banish business, banish sorrow. To the gods belongs tomorrow.

Belongs Banish Sorrow Business
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Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Blood Alone Moves Wheels
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism. It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Good Write Kind Book
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The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

Because Blond First Girl
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I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

About Disappointing Few Friends
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Room Prison World Native
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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

There Is No More
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Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

After Brighten Course Depend
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

Betray Rich Night Small
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
Kings Fewer Earth Been
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

Once Bald Past Slip
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Over Death Poets Triumphs
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

Field Crowd Foolish Mirrors
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Rival Bible Fears Hopes
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Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
Bloom Fruit Gone Our
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Desire Give Nothing Reason
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The point of vision and desire are the same.
Desire Point Same Vision
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Asset Chief Ignorance
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Others have done it before me. I can, too.

Others Done I can
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

Day Evening King Sun
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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Clocks Slay Dread Clicked
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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Shame Work Eight hours Eat
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible

Failed Dream Perfection Basis
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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

Prefer After Beauty Know
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Aim Artist Motion Artificial
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

Room Full More Fill
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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty

People Sympathetic Capacity Stronger
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

After Final Future World
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Alone Beauty Come Death
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

Consists Made Many Reality
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Candle Dark God High
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Value Along More Perhaps
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Beyond Difficult Find More
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Forces Imagination Nature Words
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Becomes Case Certain Epidemic
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Around Depends Lake Perhaps
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Behold Eyes Less Life
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Either Everything Makes Poison
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

Rule Expert Keep Become
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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

Artist Listen Critics Reviews
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Attitudes Bondage External Influences
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Better Cases Composed Doubtful
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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
Man Moral Conscience Curse
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When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Feel Burning Demand Desire
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Everyone Help Someone Tell
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once

Mule Labor Patiently Privilege
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Aim Hit May Miss
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Dream Higher Bother Contemporary
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