How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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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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A person hears only what they understand.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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