When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEFew people have the imagination for reality.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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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 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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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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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