He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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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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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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