The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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