On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHow often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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