All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery 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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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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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 situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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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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