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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?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Limitation Oneself
Few people have the imagination for reality.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Destroy Live Past
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Greatness Happiness Talent
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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Stupidity Worse
And all must follow in my wake.
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Myself Wake Up
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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Heart Myself See
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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Carry Heart Man See World
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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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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Acceptance Deep Myself Worst

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