Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBe above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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