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You Should Always Be Well And Bright, For So You Do Your Best Work; And You Have So Much Beautiful Work To Do. The World Needs It, And You Must Give It!

No One Is Contented In This World, I Believe. There Is Always Something Left To Desire, And The Last Thing Longed For Always Seems The Most Necessary To Happiness.

There Is Nothing So Inconvenient In This World As An Absolutely Truthful Person, Who Can Both Speak And Write, And Has The Courage Of His Convictions. One Can Always Arrange Matters With Liars ... But With The Man Or Woman Who Holds Truth Dearer Than Life, And Honor More Valuable Than Advancement, There Is Nothing To Be Done, Now That Governments Cannot Insist On The Hemlock-cure, As In The Case Of Socrates.

Imagination Is The Supreme Endowment Of The Poet And Romanticist. It Is A Kind Of Second Sight, Which Conveys The Owner Of It To Places He Has Never Seen, And Surrounds Him With Strange Circumstances Of Which He Is Merely The Spiritual Eyewitness.

What Was The Use Of Trying To Expound A Truth, If The Majority Preferred A Lie?