What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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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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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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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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 are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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