You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBe above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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