James Richardson Quotes

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God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself.

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Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love.

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Happiness, like water, is always available, but so often it seems we'd prefer a different drink.

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Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

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He does not deserve your praise, but he deserves to be treated as if someday he might.

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The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be.

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I'm sitting here bored, … trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery.

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You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.

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The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.

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So many times I've made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted.

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I worked so hard to understand it that it must be true.

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Why would we write if we'd already heard what we wanted to hear?

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To know, you just have to know. To believe, you have to make others believe.

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Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.

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Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

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That others know: science. That others choose: politics.

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The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn't.

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There are crimes I don't commit mainly because I don't want to find out I could.

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He Thought Positively till he became a euphemism for himself.

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It's amazing that I sit at my job all day and no one sees me clearly enough to say What is that boy doing behind a desk?

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What's the difference between provincialism, which unthinkingly takes its situation for everyone's, and cosmopolitanism, which is confident it has the right to?

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Yet sadly we feel that many of the noisiest are more interested in their indignation than in the injustice.

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Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into.

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Often you only have to ask What would I do if I were not afraid?

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I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.

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