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Hasn't there … been a little too much zeal in our reproof of children and friends for yielding to the temptations we ourselves find it most difficult to resist? We punish where we can least afford to sympathize. Of all the horrors of the daily news, it seems hardest to imagine the kind of cruelty that is intensified by the pain of its victims, but whenever we feel sympathy would weaken us, we are a little closer to the torturer.
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Judging itself brings the pain of being judged. The wicked judge mistakes this for another crime of the accused and lengthens his sentence.
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The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time.
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The drives were nature's first provision: thinking was added later, to get us around the world's obstacles to them.
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Only the dead have discovered what they cannot live without.
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If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.
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I aspire to know when best to walk or eat, which music I need, and how to keep myself sitting as I am now, stubbornly enraptured with doing practically nothing.
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Books serve us simply by opening a window on all we wanted to say and feel and think about. We may not even notice that they have not said it themselves till we go back to them years later and do not find what we loved in them. You cannot keep the view by taking the window with you.
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They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence … to productivity. And they're happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other.
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It is clear, we say, as if to see through something were to know it.
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The first abuse of power is not realizing that you have it.
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Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.
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The road reaches every place, the short cut only one.
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What did you do today? Nothing say our little children, and so do I. What we most are is what we keep mistaking for nothing.
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The great consolation of righteousness is never having to worry whether you're a bore.
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The single sin is less of a problem than the good reasons for it.
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The best way to get people to do what you want is not to be too particular about what you want.
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Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn't fine long when used as a hammer.
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To condemn your sin in another is hypocrisy. Not to condemn is to reserve your right to sin.
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I've spent so long trying to fly that it's too late to set out on foot.
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A strange gratitude for those I disagree with. They keep me from having to take too seriously the moments when I disagree with myself.
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I'm a kid checking mail, a kid on his cell with his questions:
are we in love, Life, are we exclusive, are we forever?
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Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.
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Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method.
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I'm surprised that multiple personalities are so much less common in reality than in fiction: what a little disorder it would take, a distraction, a sleep, for one of our minor characters to imagine he was the star, to speak out for everyone else. And that's what it would be, a change of billing, not of authorship. For you do not write your play—you are just the character in it called The Playwright. The real writer, you never meet.
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James Richardson
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January 1, 1950
(age 74)
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James Richardson is an American poet.
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