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"To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities"
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"Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours."
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"The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running."
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"Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off."
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"Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits."
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"Before you can do something, you must first be something."
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"There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable."
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"Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in."
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"We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth."
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"Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays."
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"The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master."
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"There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference."
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"Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse."
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"Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?"
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"Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own."
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"People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody."
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"Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent."
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"The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does."
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"An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness."
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