By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Remember to live.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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