Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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