"Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse."
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"But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?"
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"Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it."
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"Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time."
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"A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together."
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"Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession."
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"His saying was: live and let live."
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"Life is earnest, art is gay."
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"Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil."
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"Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!"
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"The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates."
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"Virtue is no empty echo."
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"Art is the right hand of Nature."
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