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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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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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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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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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A person hears only what they understand.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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