A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETo 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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Remember to live.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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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 man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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