The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEFew people have the imagination for reality.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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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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