To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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A person hears only what they understand.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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