Max BeerbohmOnly mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
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The above quote is about the need for discipline. It is interesting that this quote has been attributed to Isaac Newton, although it was written by the English poet John Keats. However, Keats’s line of thinking is also echoed by Albert Einstein, who once said of failure: “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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