What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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 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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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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.
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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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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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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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