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While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best
He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted
A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endue it
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read
It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall
The pen is the tongue of the mind
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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