True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is … - Edwin Percy Whipple

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A lot of artists talk about getting out of their comfort zones and being the most proud of their newest album. But it is true for me. I rethought a lot of what I do.

Edwin Percy Whipple

True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts,--it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise.

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As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.

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Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

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God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

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A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.

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A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

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