We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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