In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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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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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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