Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf I love you, what business is it of yours?
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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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 is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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 human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Remember to live.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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