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 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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Remember to live.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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