Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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A person hears only what they understand.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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