The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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