Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETo be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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