I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI 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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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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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Remember to live.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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