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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?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Achievement Important
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Children Parents Wings
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Knowledge Myself
A person hears only what they understand.
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Deep Person Understand
I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Morning Myself Tears Wait
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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Himself Man Noble Philosophy Soul Writing
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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Destiny Happiness Lost Man Reason
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Importance Mercy Worth
To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Limitation Oneself
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Business I Love You Myself
One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Exception Oneself Ordinary
Leap and the net will appear.
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Believe Faith Hope
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Deep Life Night
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Love Ourselves View Walk
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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Desire Disappointment Enjoyment Happiness Heart Hope Ignorance World
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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Heart Myself See
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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Goodness Photograph Poem Possible Reading Song
By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Learning Mistake Seek
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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Exception Greatness Himself Love Oneself
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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Ability Character People
The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Intelligence Laughter Man
Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Growth People
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Game Ideas Start Win
The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Fame One Liner Worth
I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Children Heart Myself Sick
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Ignorance Understand World
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Danger Imagination Taste

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