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By all means, let us study the great writers of the past for their own sakes, but let us study them for our guidance: that we, in our turn, having (it is to be hoped) something to say in our span of time, say it worthily, not dwindling out the large utterance of Shakespeare or of Burke.

~Arthur Quiller-Couch

Topics: Great Guidance Having Hoped Large Let Us Means Our Out Own Past Say Shakespeare Something Span Study Them Time Turn Us Writers

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Portraits of other great ones look down on you in your college halls; but while you are young and sit at the brief feast, what avails their serene gaze if it do not lift up your hearts and movingly persuade you to match your manhood to its inheritance?

~Arthur Quiller-Couch

Topics: Avail Brief College Down Feast Gaze Great Great Ones Halls Hearts Inheritance Lift Look Manhood Match Other Persuade Portraits Serene Sit Up While You Young Your

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To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Alone Fate Great Live Souls

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Because Brief Buildings Cannot Close Great Great Minds Little Live Magnitude Minds Related See Span Square Stand Standing Them Time Too Which You

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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Absurdity Age Air Before Begin Constantly Firmly Five Great Head Human May Only Palpable Planted Repeating Solemnity You

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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Ability Great Great Talent Honesty Hypocrisy Limited Merely Modesty People Possess Talent Those Who

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Action Chief Great Head Heart Qualification Work

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People tell me how great it must have been to ride horses and stuff. Well, do it for two days straight on dusty days when the cows and horses were really tired.

~Arthur Slade

Topics: Been Cows Days Dusty Great Horses How Me Must People Really Ride Ride Horses Straight Stuff Tell Tired Two Well Were

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My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

~Artie Lange

Topics: Athlete Catch Did Eventually Father Good Great High His How Judge Learned Play Properly Really School Sky Started Teams Them Through Training Well Were Which

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