How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWho 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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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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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