If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Every 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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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