Public Republic

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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.


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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

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There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn’t there.

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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

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My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

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Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can’t get out of it if we would.

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Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.