A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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 all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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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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