Quote #3

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.

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  1. The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.
  2. Children always turn toward the light.
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  4. In oratory the will must predominate.
  5. None but a fool is always right.
  6. Nothing is further than Earth from Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth.
  7. Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.
  8. Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature.

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