Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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