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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Happiness Himself Home Peace
We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Doubt Growth Knowledge
How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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Heart Myself See
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Change Life Live Preparation
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Children Easy Hard Time Parents
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Institution Mad Mental Ourselves
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Impossible Love Myself
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
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
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
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Action Enough Willing
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Evil Greatness Himself Sick
Leap and the net will appear.
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Believe Faith Hope
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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Act Easy Philosophy Thinking
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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Book Mindset Reading Strong Thinking
In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Life One Liner Reflection
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Deep Philosophy Trust
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Believe Opinion People
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Believe Inspirational Magic Yourself
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Encouragement Inspirational Result Team
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
And all must follow in my wake.
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Myself Wake Up
The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Choice Goodness Rich Wine
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Destroy Live Past
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Business I Love You Myself
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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