Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIn the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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