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 GOETHEThe highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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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