A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEMisunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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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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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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