Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEToo many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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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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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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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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