Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEToo many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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