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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Creation Happiness Himself Ideal Kind Ourselves Perfection Quality
Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Be Yourself Deep Run
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
I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Children Heart Myself Sick
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Difficult Inspirational
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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Creation Past Philosophy
We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Doubt Growth Knowledge
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Change Life Live Preparation
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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Character Himself Transformation
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Achievement Greatness Himself Man
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Impossible Love Myself
Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Growth People
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Greatness Happiness Talent
We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Deep Future Lost Past Philosophy Present
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
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Encouragement Inspirational Result Team
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Feeling Heart Philosophy
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Act Easy Philosophy Thinking
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Deep Life Night
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Game Ideas Start Win
If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Eat Life Taste Yourself
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Destroy Live Past
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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Beautiful God Human Life Man Music Photograph Poetry Reading Soul
The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Choice Goodness Rich Wine
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Knowledge Myself
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Beautiful Forever Hide Law Secret
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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