Memory

Sentence 1

There’s a time in a man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide

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That he take himself for better, for worse, as his portion, that though the wide universe is full of good, the kernel of nourishing corn can come to him, through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till

3

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows that is what he can do, nor does he know until he tried….

4

Bravely let him speak of his utmost syllable of his confession. We but half express ourselves, and ashamed of that Divine idea which each of us represents.

5

It may be safety trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it may be faithfully imparted, but god may not have his work manifested by cowards.

6

It takes a divine may to exhibits anything divine. A man is relived and gay when he puts his heart into his work and done his best, but what he had said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace.

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It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In his attempt, his genius desert him, no muse befriend, no invention, no hope