We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIs 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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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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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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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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A person hears only what they understand.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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Remember to live.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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