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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Creation Happiness Himself Ideal Kind Ourselves Perfection Quality
Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Imagination People Reality
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Character Laugh Man
The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Choice Goodness Rich Wine
When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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Alive Kill Live Lost Soul
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Business I Love You Myself
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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Heart Myself Philosophy Presence Soul
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Choice Deep World
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Difficult Inspirational
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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Character Himself Transformation
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Ignorance Understand World
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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Destroy Mad Man Moral Opinion Suffering
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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Institution Mad Mental Ourselves
Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Forever Moments Worth
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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Desire Disappointment Enjoyment Happiness Heart Hope Ignorance World
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Action Enough Willing
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Believe Freedom Hope
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Children Parents Wings
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Carry Heart Man See World
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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Act Easy Philosophy Thinking
One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Oneself Travel
What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Myself Philosophy Reality
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Impossible Love Myself
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Ideal Love Marriage Reality
The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Intelligence Laughter Man
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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Ability Character People
By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Learning Mistake Seek

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