What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWho is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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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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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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