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"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."

"To have great poets, there must be great audiences."

"Nothing recedes like success."

"Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority."

"Some stories are true that never happened."

"Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself."

"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

"Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life."

"Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love."

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."

"Faith is a passionate intuition."

"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."

"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."

"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."

"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy."

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."

"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true."