To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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 can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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