Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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