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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEAll that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living 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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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 greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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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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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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