A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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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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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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