Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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