"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.“
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Poetry: the best words in the best order."
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"That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith."
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"Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
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"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."
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"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing."
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."
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"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
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"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
-Ambrose Bierce
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