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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI 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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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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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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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