The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that insures the successful outcome of our venture.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
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Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.
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