"Poem" — these lines are among those quoted on the The Pacifist Memorial http://www.peaceabbey.org/memorial/memorial.htm
The Speed of Darkness (1968)
Context: We would try to imagine them, try to find each other,
To construct peace, to make love, to reconcile
Waking with sleeping, ourselves with each other,
Ourselves with ourselves. We would try by any means
To reach the limits of ourselves, to reach beyond ourselves,
To let go the means, to wake.
“Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.”
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 6
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“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

“Never allow fears to limit your life.”
prevale.net
Original: (it) Non permettere mai alle paure di limitarti la vita.
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The Federalist Papers (1787–1788)
Context: The complete independence of the Courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the Legislative authority; such, for instance, as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex post facto laws, and the like. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of the Courts of justice; whose duty it must be to declare all Acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.
No. 78

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Source: Diario Publico (31 de enero 2020), https://www.publico.es/videos/835560/fernando-simon-espana-no-va-a-tener-como-mucho-mas-alla-de-algun-caso-diagnosticado.

“You've been raised in limitation, but that glove never fit quite right.”
Lyrics, S.C.I.E.N.C.E. (1997)

AJENCIS, THE THIRD ANALYTIC OF MEN.
The White Luck Warrior (2011)

"Nixon: Maestro of Resentment" (1990).
1990s, For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports (1993)