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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.   Art
Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respect...  
Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity tha...  
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon huma...  
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have p...  
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful ...   Art
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the soc...   Society
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have...  
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but t...  
The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of ...  
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human ene...  
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, m...  
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts ...  
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and interc...  
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will ...  
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposin...  
There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner ...  
To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.  
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of...  
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action...  
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward ma...  
We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is b...  
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he ...