The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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