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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little c

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. – Sydney Smith

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The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. – Sydney Smith

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Fasting
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Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh

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What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. – Henry David Thoreau

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. – Andrew Carnegie

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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. – Gertrude Stein

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. – David Viscott

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