Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne 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.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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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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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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