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There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

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Never confuse movement with action.

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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

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A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

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All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

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There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

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