Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENight is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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 laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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