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"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"All of life's great lessons present themselves again and again until mastered." »David Ashley Brewer
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"My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger." »Aldous Huxley
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"Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division." »Jan Ehrenwald.
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"We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift." »Seneca
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"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly." »Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_
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"Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered." »H Hahn Blavatsky
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