There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery 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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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