Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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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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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Remember to live.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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