Much Ado About Nothing,
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My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Physicists know what's important, but they don't know what is true. Mathematicians know what's true, but they don't know what is important.
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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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...O brave new world, That has such people in't!
O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!-Miranda Act V, scene i -
How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.
