What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold 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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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