The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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