None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBeauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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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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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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.
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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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