One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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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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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A person hears only what they understand.
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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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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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!
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