What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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