Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELove does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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 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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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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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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