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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA person hears only what they understand.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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