A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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Remember to live.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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.
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