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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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