None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI 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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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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A person hears only what they understand.
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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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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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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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