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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 Goethe

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Danger Solitude
A person hears only what they understand.
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Deep Person Understand
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Deep Future Lost Past Philosophy Present
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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Creation Happiness Himself Ideal Kind Ourselves Perfection Quality
One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Exception Oneself Ordinary
All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Literature One Liner Transformation
One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Oneself Travel
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Heart Myself Philosophy Presence Soul
We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Doubt Growth Knowledge
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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Act Easy Philosophy Thinking
The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Fame One Liner Worth
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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Himself Man Noble Philosophy Soul Writing
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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