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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Be Yourself Deep Run
A person hears only what they understand.
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Deep Person Understand
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Ignorance Understand World
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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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.
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Happiness Joy Man Value
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Believe Inspirational Magic Yourself
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
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Hands Himself Live
To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Limitation Oneself
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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