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You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.: Lou Holtz
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.: Edgar Lee Masters
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Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.: E. R. Bulwer-Lytton, Last Words (1860)
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Method of Nature (1841)
There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Whatever you are, be a good one.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

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