Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA 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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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