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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Creation Happiness Himself Ideal Kind Ourselves Perfection Quality
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Destroy Live Past
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Stupidity Worse
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Ideal Love Marriage Reality
The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Fame One Liner Worth
And all must follow in my wake.
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Myself Wake Up
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Beautiful Forever Hide Law Secret
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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Feeling Herself Myself Philosophy
What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Alone Heart Talk Win
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
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
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Greatness Happiness Talent
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Change Life Live Preparation
By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Learning Mistake Seek
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Evil Greatness Himself Sick
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Impossible Love Myself
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Believe Opinion People
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Children Easy Hard Time Parents
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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Destroy Mad Man Moral Opinion Suffering
Everything transitory is but an image.
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One Liner Transformation
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
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
Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Deep Philosophy Soul
To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Limitation Oneself
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Purpose Slave World Yourself
Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Danger Solitude
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Believe Freedom Hope

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