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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDifficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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