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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Doubt Growth Knowledge
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Encouragement Inspirational Result Team
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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Love Ourselves View Walk
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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Heart Word
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Knowledge Myself
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Evil Greatness Himself Sick
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
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Believe Opinion People
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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Creation Happiness Himself Ideal Kind Ourselves Perfection Quality
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Action Enough Willing
All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Literature One Liner Transformation
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Stupidity Worse
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Creation Past Philosophy
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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Character Himself Transformation
Everything transitory is but an image.
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One Liner Transformation
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Importance Mercy Worth

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