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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Himself Man Noble Philosophy Soul Writing
Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Heart Judgement Myself Ourselves Pursue
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Believe Opinion People
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Empty Feeling Garden Nature Spirit Thinking World
The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Intelligence Laughter Man
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Action Enough Willing
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Carry Heart Man See World
I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Morning Myself Tears Wait
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!
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Desire Disappointment Enjoyment Happiness Heart Hope Ignorance World
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
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Action Ignorance Scare
To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Limitation Oneself
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Impossible Love Myself
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Greatness Happiness Talent
Leap and the net will appear.
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Believe Faith Hope
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
Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Action Doubt
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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Love Ourselves View Walk
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Believe Inspirational Magic Yourself
And all must follow in my wake.
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Myself Wake Up
The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Language Limitation World
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Danger Imagination Taste
I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Heart Laughter Myself
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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Happiness Joy Man Value
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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Heart Myself Philosophy Presence Soul
One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Oneself Travel
I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Children Heart Myself Sick

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