Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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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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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Remember to live.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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