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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Achievement Greatness Himself Man
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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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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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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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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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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