Quote by Charles Baudelaire
There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely t

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them. – Charles Baudelaire

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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. – Charles Baudelaire

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As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work. – Charles Baudelaire

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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. – Charles Baudelaire

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts. – James Allen

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature. – Hans Christian Andersen

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. – Chinese Proverb

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing. – Ashvaghosha

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