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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEverybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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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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.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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