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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
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To be great is to be misunderstood
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The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
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We say so because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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All the toys that infatuate men, and which they play for