Worst of all I fear mediocrity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Fear Mediocrity Self-doubt

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Medium

Letter

Language

Russian

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Russia Europe

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Original Citation

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. "Letter to Sofya Ivanova." c. 29 Sept. 1867.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. "Letter to Sofya Ivanova, ca. September 29, 1867." Fyodor Dostoevsky: Complete Letters, ed. and trans. David A. Lowe, vol. 2, 1860-1867. Ardis, 1989.

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Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.
Sophocles long ago
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The sea of faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Matthew Arnold

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The strongest of all warriors are these two—Time and Patience.

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