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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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