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In 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!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Eat Life Taste Yourself
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Feeling Heart Philosophy
And all must follow in my wake.
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Myself Wake Up
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Fear Freedom Greatness Human Live People Race Seek Time
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Ability Character People
The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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Destroy Mad Man Moral Opinion Suffering
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Ignorance Understand World
What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Myself Philosophy Reality
Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Deep Philosophy Soul
Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Imagination People Reality
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Act Easy Philosophy Thinking
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Impossible Love Myself
The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Achievement Man
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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