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!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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