Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELove is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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