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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETwo souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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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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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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