Quote by Mark Twain
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. – Mark Twain

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. – Mark Twain

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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. – William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604

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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves. – William Hazlitt

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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. – Thomas Hobbes

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Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, its just really another kind of tangential thing in his life. – Thomas Haden Church

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The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth. – Joseph Campbell

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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. – William James

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