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We are apt to think that our ideas and feelings are our own, and feel a sort of pride in them; but these we have been long accumulating, borrowing, stealing from the great store of the world's knowledge, and they are really the outcome of thousands of years of thought.
— John Lancaster Spalding, Thoughts and Theories of Life and Education (1897)

5d ago

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.

2mo ago

The task of the excellent poet is not to say the things that can be said about nightingales, but to say something that has never been said about anything.

2mo ago

The task, then, is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees.

3mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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