To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI 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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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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!
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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