As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEMisunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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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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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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