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.
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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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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