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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but...
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before...
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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Big nations are like chickens. They like to make big noises, but very often...
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A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and...
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the...
Quote #32545
What then have I done What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by...