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Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie for lies breed like Surinam toads you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.
Washington Allston
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Washington Allston
Age: 63 †
Born: 1779
Born: November 5
Died: 1843
Died: July 9
Novelist
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Charleston
South Carolina
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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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Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.
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Never expect justice from a vain man if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.
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If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.
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He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.
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Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.
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Never judge a work of art by its defects.
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If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!
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Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.
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If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.
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I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.
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Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.
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The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
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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 cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.
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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.
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No man knows himself as an original.
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In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.
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Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.
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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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