Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETo 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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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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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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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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 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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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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