Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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