Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETo be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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