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 you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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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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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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