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If You Are Poor, Distinguish Yourself By Your Virtues; If Rich, By Your Good Deeds.

Fully To Understand A Grand And Beautiful Thought Requires, Perhaps, As Much Time As To Conceive It.

The Mind Conceives With Pain, But It Brings Forth With Delight.

Professional Critics Are Incapable Of Distinguishing And Appreciating Either Diamonds In The Rough Or Gold In Bars. They Are Traders, And In Literature Know Only The Coins That Are Current. Their Critical Lab Has Scales And Weights, But Neither Crucible Or Touchstone.

Success Serves Men As A Pedestal. It Makes Them Seem Greater When Not Measured By Reflection.