"One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison."
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"Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits."
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"The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go."
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"A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor."
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"Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time."
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"A healthy nature needs no God or immortality"
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"The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet."
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time."
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"I am better than my reputation"
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"The dream is short, repentance long."
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"Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly."
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"Deaf rage that hears no leader."
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"Art is difficult, transient is her reward."
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"I feel that I am a man of destiny."
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"Obedience decks the Christian most."
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"Never the grave gives back what it has won!"
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"The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results."
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"All things must; man is the only creature that wills."
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"If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller."
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"Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round."
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