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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELove is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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Remember to live.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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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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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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