The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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