We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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