"Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.[Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille,Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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“What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.”
“All perishable is but an allegory.”
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“Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.”
“I think the only way it has influenced me is to cause me to try to branch out and do other things. So that people will know that I am reaching out and trying to be a little more versatile. So they realize he is not a "Dirty Harry." He doesn't advocate martial law or mayhem -it's a character.”
“When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.”
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