Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETo think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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A person hears only what they understand.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Every 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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And all must follow in my wake.
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