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Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27-05-1776) -
To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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To be a champion you must live like one.
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To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.
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To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
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To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
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To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
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To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
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