"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."
"Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?"
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Source: Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Act III, sc. viii, 1798.
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