There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETwo souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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Knowing 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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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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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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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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