The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBe above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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