Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENight is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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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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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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