For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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