A person hears only what they understand.
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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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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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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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