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And all must follow in my wake.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Himself Man Noble Philosophy Soul Writing
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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Book Mindset Reading Strong Thinking
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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Creation Past Philosophy
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Hands Himself Live
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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Ability Character People
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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Destiny Happiness Lost Man Reason
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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Beautiful Nature See Tolerance
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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Exception Greatness Himself Love Oneself
Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Growth People
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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Happiness Joy Man Value
We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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Creation Happiness Himself Ideal Kind Ourselves Perfection Quality
The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Choice Goodness Rich Wine
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Importance Mercy Worth
Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Be Yourself Deep Run
By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Learning Mistake Seek
Leap and the net will appear.
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Believe Faith Hope
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Evil Greatness Himself Sick
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Character Laugh Man
We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Doubt Growth Knowledge
The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Intelligence Laughter Man
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Deep Philosophy Trust
Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Forever Moments Worth
Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Imagination People Reality
In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Life One Liner Reflection
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Institution Mad Mental Ourselves
All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Literature One Liner Transformation
Everything transitory is but an image.
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