Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHow 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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Every 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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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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