By seeking and blundering we learn.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBehaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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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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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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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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