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"The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds" — Mark Twain — Quotes for Free

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The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds

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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable

Source: Emma (1815)

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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

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Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

Source: La Saisiaz (1878)

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Source: Walden (1854)