We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEInstruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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