The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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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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