"The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.”
“We have to stop being defined by what we own, and start being defined by what we create.”
“Light tomorrow with today!”

Source : Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.494, Delphi Classics
“Always have clear lines of communication and be open to trying new ideas. Being open to new ideas is crucial to growing as an artist. If you always have the same creative habits, how will you ever excel to the next level? The answer is, you won't. Taking those creative risks reaps the most incredible rewards.”
“American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian , don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the idea were to keep all they know to themselves.”

Source : "Fanfare" by Burton Rascoe in "H. L. Mencken", 1920.
“Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.”
“Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.”
“Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.”

Source : 'The Man of Mode' (1676) act 4, sc. 1

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