None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBe above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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Remember to live.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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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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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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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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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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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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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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