To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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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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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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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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