"What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
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“Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.”
“But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.”
“Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.”
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“Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeares wit. The men who lived with him becamePoets, for the air was fame.”
“When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.”
“There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.”