Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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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.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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