Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI wait for the morning of my tears.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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I 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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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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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