He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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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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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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