Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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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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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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