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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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Game Ideas Start Win
To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Limitation Oneself
If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Eat Life Taste Yourself
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Himself Man Noble Philosophy Soul Writing
Leap and the net will appear.
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Believe Faith Hope
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Choice Deep World
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Character Laugh Man
By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Learning Mistake Seek
In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Life One Liner Reflection
The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Fame One Liner Worth
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Ignorance Understand World
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Empty Feeling Garden Nature Spirit Thinking World
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
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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Ability Character People
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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Acceptance Deep Myself Worst
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Beautiful Forever Hide Law Secret
Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Growth People
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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Goodness Oneself Poem Possible Reading Word
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Goodness Photograph Poem Possible Reading Song
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Achievement Greatness Himself Man
Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Deep Philosophy Soul
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Importance Mercy Worth
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Character Easy Himself Judgement Man Yourself
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Danger Imagination Taste
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Children Parents Wings
We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Doubt Growth Knowledge
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

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