Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice
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A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.
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We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
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The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
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Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
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The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.
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Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need a sense of life's possibilities.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.
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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
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I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.
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I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
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A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
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In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
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There are no speed limits on the road to success.
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The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.
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To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
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