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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated... As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all... No man is an island, entire of itself... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.