"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
-Henry Ward Beecher
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"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.“
-Henry Ward Beecher
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"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
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"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."
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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
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"A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never."
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"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
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