Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf 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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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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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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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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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