"The Service without Hope Is tenderest, I think-- ... There is no Diligence like that That knows not an Until"

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Emily Dickinson

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“Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement.”
“In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.”
“I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share ...”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
“All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.”
“Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith...”
“One thing that President Donald Trump did is, when he formed his team, he brought in people who had some experience in dealing with natural disasters, which is a mistake that the Bush administration made.”
“And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.”
“Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.”

Source : "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter XV, 1795-1822.

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