How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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