To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBy seeking and blundering we learn.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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 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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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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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