We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEverybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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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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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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