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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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Feeling Heart Philosophy
If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Eat Life Taste Yourself
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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Heart Judgement Myself Ourselves Pursue
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Believe Freedom Hope
The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Intelligence Laughter Man
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Believe Opinion People
Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Growth People
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Difficult Inspirational
The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Fame One Liner Worth
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Happiness Himself Home Peace
By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Learning Mistake Seek
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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Happiness Joy Man Value
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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Character Himself Transformation
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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Fear Freedom Greatness Human Live People Race Seek Time
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!
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Desire Disappointment Enjoyment Happiness Heart Hope Ignorance World
Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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Destiny Happiness Lost Man Reason
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Achievement Important
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.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Beautiful Forever Hide Law Secret
The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Choice Goodness Rich Wine
The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Language Limitation World
Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Action Doubt
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Children Parents Wings
Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Forever Moments Worth
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Carry Heart Man See World
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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Alive Kill Live Lost Soul
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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