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“The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“It would be impossible to find a deeper sense of the function of education in discovering and developing personal capacities, and training them so that they would connect with the activities of others.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

“If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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Stephen King (1)
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (1)
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1)
Of Human Bondage (1)
Heart of Darkness (1)
Democracy and Education (1)
Friendship (1)