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!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThings which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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 man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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Remember to live.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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