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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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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Love Ourselves View Walk
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Character Easy Himself Judgement Man Yourself
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Deep Life Night
When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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Alive Kill Live Lost Soul
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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
And all must follow in my wake.
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Myself Wake Up
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Children Easy Hard Time Parents
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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Beautiful God Human Life Man Music Photograph Poetry Reading Soul
Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Be Yourself Deep Run
What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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Beautiful Nature See Tolerance
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Action Ignorance Scare
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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Feeling Herself Myself Philosophy
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Change Life Live Preparation
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Deep Philosophy Trust
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Action Enough Willing
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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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Empty Feeling Garden Nature Spirit Thinking World
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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Destiny Happiness Lost Man Reason
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Impossible Love Myself
What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Myself Philosophy Reality
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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Fame One Liner Worth
All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Limitation Oneself

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