I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe 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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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The 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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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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