The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEFew people have the imagination for reality.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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