One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELove does not dominate; it cultivates.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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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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