None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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