How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHe who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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 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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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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