Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe 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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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