Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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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 treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable 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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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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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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