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Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet cannot succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can't get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful.
Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.
To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.
Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
Wishes are premonitions of abilities.
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
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The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
