The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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The 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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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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