To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe 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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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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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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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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