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Farnsworth Crowder · Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. – Max Lucado
Anyone can follow the crowd but only a true visionary will dare to stand up for what he/she believes in. – Precious
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd. – From the I Ching
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. – Alan Ashley-Pitt
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. – Cesare Lombroso
...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance (essay)
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul." – Soren Kierkegaard
And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd. – Dejan Stojanovic
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. – Ralph Charell
Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months. – Oren Arnold
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. – Edith Sitwell
Every crowd has a silver lining. – Phineas Taylor Barnum
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination. – Paul Aubuchon
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise foundress of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss. – Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. – Arthur Brisbane
Hark! here the sound of lute so sweet, And there the voice of wailing loud; Here scholars grave in conclave meet, There howls the brawling drunken crowd; Here, charming maidens full of glee, There, tottering, withered dames we see. Such light! Such shade! I cannot tell, If here we live in heaven or hell. – Bhartrihari
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. – Karl Kraus
Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening. – Jerry Coleman
I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day – David Grayson
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. – Mark Twain
Inside a crowd, you have no right to complain about the crowdedness, because you are already a part of it! – Mehmet Murat ildan
It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Max Lucado says that ‘A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.’ That is true and a man who wants to find out the truth must also do the same thing! – Mehmet Murat ildan
My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic. – Walt Whitman
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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