cabinet of intellectual gems

"A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems." -William B. Sprague

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If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.

Coleman Hawkins

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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Herbert Kretzmer

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Don't push the river, it flows by itself.

Chinese Proverb

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Earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

Gerard Way

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See You Tonight - Scotty McCreery

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Anonymous

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Counting Stars -One Republic

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Edge of Desire -John Mayer

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Stay -Mayday Parade

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I want to be first. I know that's selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that's so wrong of me, so be it. I'll be wrong. But that's the way I feel.

Charlaine Harris

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Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those things normal things that normal people do.

Paolo Giordano

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...We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

Elie Wiesel

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I'm fighting myself. I know I am. One minute I want to remember. The next minute I want to live in the land of forgetting. One minute I want to feel. Then next minute I never want to feel anything ever again.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on when, in your heart, you begin to understand that there is no going back? There are somethings that time cannot mend.

JRR Tolkien

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I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

Flannery O'Connor

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It is better to be late than arrive ugly.

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