"Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing."
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"The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one."
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"Every step of life shows much caution is required."
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"A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life."
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"Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued."
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"Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny"
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"Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home."
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"Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply."
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"The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave."
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"The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology."
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"He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is."
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"The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application."
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"And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence."
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"Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings"
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"Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages."
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"Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations."
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"Nature has neither kernel Nor shell"
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"Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms."
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"A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss."
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"I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him."
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