One must be something in order to do something. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.

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People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

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