None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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