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.
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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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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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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