To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENight is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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