What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIn happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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