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The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
Washington Allston
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Washington Allston
Age: 63 †
Born: 1779
Born: November 5
Died: 1843
Died: July 9
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Charleston
South Carolina
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An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.
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In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.
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Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.
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Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
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I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.
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The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
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Reverence is an ennobling sentiment it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art in the world, tyrants of all sorts.
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Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.
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The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.
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I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.
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Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
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