“Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden.”
                                        
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James Richardson is an American poet.
“Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden.”
                                        
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“To know, you just have to know. To believe, you have to make others believe.”
                                        
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“I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.”
                                        
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“The tyrant puts down his own rebellion, everywhere.”
                                        
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“I don’t know what’s meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window.”
                                        
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“The single sin is less of a problem than the good reasons for it.”
                                        
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“Let me have my dreams but not what I dream of.”
                                        
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“I’m sitting here bored, … trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery.”
                                        
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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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“The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn’t.”
                                        
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                                        Aphorism #19 
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“Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.”
                                        
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“It is clear, we say, as if to see through something were to know it.”
                                        
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“Why would we write if we’d already heard what we wanted to hear?”
                                        
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“Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.”
                                        
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“The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.”
                                        
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                                        Aphorism #7 
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