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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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