"Time itself is an element."
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"The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person."
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"The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites."
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"By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values."
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"Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]"
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"At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past."
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"The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all."
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"It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation."
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"Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things."
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"Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition."
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"Noble be man, helpful and good!"
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"Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book."
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"These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation."
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"As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment."
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"Man errs as long as he strives."
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"One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others."
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"Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability."
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"It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing."
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"Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed."
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"The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain."
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