Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA 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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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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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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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Remember to live.
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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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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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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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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