A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDaring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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