Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEMisunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Remember to live.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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