A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe 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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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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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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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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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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