Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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