We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEMisunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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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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