The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEInstruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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