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François-René de Chateaubriand, fully François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste genius is only sublime folly.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

Good | Rage | Sound | Wisdom |

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François-René de Chateaubriand, fully François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.

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Elihu Burritt

All that I have accomplished, or expect or hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plotting, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

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Allan Chalmers, fully Allan Knight Chalmers

Music is the language of praise; and one of the most essential preparations for eternity is delight in praising God; a higher acquirement, I do think, than even delight and devotedness to prayer.

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

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William Benton Clulow

I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.

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Calvin Coolidge, fully John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

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Robert Collier

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Enough | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

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Clarence Darrow, fully Clarence Seward Darrow

When we abandon the thought of immortality we at least have cast out fear. We gain a certain dignity and self-respect. We regard our fellow travelers as companions in the pleasures and tribulations of life... We gain kinship with the world.

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Salvador Dalí, fully Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech

When the creation of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

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Clarence Shepard Day, Jr.

Will and Wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship Will.

Will | Wisdom | Worship |

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Robert Collier

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

Mind | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

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Samuel McChord Crothers

Our thought is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.

Thought | Wisdom | World | Thought |

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Calvin Coolidge, fully John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race

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Robert Collier

Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power.

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