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“A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The uncommon abilities and fortune of Severus have induced an elegant historian to compare him with the first and greatest of the Cæsars. The…

— Edward Gibbon

“The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and as I knew well, he was never so truly formidable…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so viscious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion…

— Mary Shelley

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment. He was conscious of motion.…

— Ambrose Bierce

“A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of…

— John Williams

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one…

— William Hutchison Murray

“They will not struggle energetically against him, sometimes they will even applaud him; but they do not follow him. To his vehemence they secretly…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in a man,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn