Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

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Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

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Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

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Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

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