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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe 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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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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