To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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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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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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