Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETwo souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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 usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes 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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