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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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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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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Remember to live.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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