If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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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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