To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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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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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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Remember to live.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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