A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIn 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!
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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!
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of 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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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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