The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
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There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
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Few have at once both thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames action animates, but narrows.
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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