Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELove is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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To 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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